From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile+NO@...+starynkevitch.net.invalid>
Date: 2002-09-27T19:21:45+09:00
Subject: Re: R (was: adding overload to ruby)

>>>>> "Nikodemus" == Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> writes:

    Nikodemus> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

    >> of course. so we give anyone choice - write efficiently
    >> compiled or easily extensible dynamic code. it is right thing
    >> (IMHO)

    Nikodemus> What I'd *love* would be to keep ruby dynamic as it is,
    Nikodemus> and have a statically typed language, call it R, with a
    Nikodemus> ruby-like syntax for extension writing: the two should
    Nikodemus> be easily interoperable and have equivalent builtin
    Nikodemus> classes.

It has not a Ruby syntax, but it seems to me that Ocaml fits in
nicely. Ocaml is statically typed, functional and object-oriented
(with multiple inheritance...).

See www.ocaml.org

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