From: David Morton Date: 2007-02-13T02:29:02+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] the funniest thing ever -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 10, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Morton Goldberg wrote: > On Feb 10, 2007, at 1:13 AM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: > >> >> http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/ >> scalable_computer_programming_languages.html > > > That's really good. Thanks for sharing. I followed the link. I > think the article is well worth reading. I have to disagree with the paper a bit. It seems that the author is evaluating languages in a vacuum without practical considerations... typical for academia. If he likes OCAML so much, is there a mod_ocaml for apache? are there MIME, SMTP, IMAP libraries available? Is there a a nice framework like Rails to build with? (just picking on it because the author likes it so much. I've never used OCAML) The pragmatic side of me says I don't have time to look at a language that can't get the job done. (even if you add "yet" to that). More importantly, the scalability of a language depends more on the programmer than the language. I've seen scalable and brittle code in almost all of those languages. David Morton Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com mortonda@dgrmm.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFF0KPiUy30ODPkzl0RAvYrAKCBSqrYh0YIkZLYPCa00NOEDhh5OgCfUeZ0 PFAeCdEAfhX4orS5bCAstzk= =ZLo1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----