From: ara.t.howard@... Date: 2007-02-13T06:19:38+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] the funniest thing ever On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, SonOfLilit wrote: > On 2/12/07, David Morton wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> 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. > > > His only point is that there is correlation between scalability and > applicability of a language. > > The rest is evaluation of scalability of different languages. > > Does the lack of a mod_ocaml make it less sacalable? No. It makes it more > applicable. Which isn't the same. especially since mod_ocaml is right here http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/hump.en.cgi?contrib=281 along with smtp, pop, net, cgi, etc http://ocamlnet.sourceforge.net/manual-2.2/ fyi and very OT. -a -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. - the dalai lama