From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-08-26T22:59:46+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

Thanks for sharing your opinion.  I completely agree with you.  I think
learning a new thing is important, but because of the schedules and
priorities, I think it is better if the new language can also be put
practically for everyday use.  Well, for me probably it is left to choose
among Haskell, Scheme/MzScheme/Guile (because of SWIG) and OCaml...

Regards,

Bill
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Christian Szegedy <szegedy@nospam.or.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> OCaml can be extended easily extended by C-functions. (It's a bit more
> complicated than extending Ruby, but still not too hard.)

> I have chosen OCaml because it's great performance and practical libraries
> and because it seems to be very stable.

> OCaml has the ambititon to become a really usefull language for everyday use,
> not just an experimental one for theoretical purposes. For me Haskell seems
> to be quite a "toy for students", while OCaml is a really serious and practical
> project. (I don't want to offend anybody, these are just my impressions, and
> not backed by too much experience on Haskell.)