From: Steven Lumos <steven@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T03:07:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] the funniest thing ever

David Morton <mortonda@dgrmm.net> writes:

> 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?  

Yes.

>are there MIME, SMTP, IMAP libraries available?  

Yes, yes, maybe not but none of these are quite rocket science so why
do you care?

>Is there a a nice framework like Rails to build with?

Well probably since it seems to be the only killer app in the world
and what every language zealot wants to copy.  There is probably also
a framework that was designed to take advantage of the strengths of
the language instead of merely regurgitating another *ails.

>(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).

The Pragmatic side of me says learn a language a year.

Steve