From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T23:24:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Thinking of learning Ruby


"Seth Kurtzberg" <seth@cql.com> wrote in message
news:200303091915.08192.seth@cql.com...

> > The two best languages are IMHO Ruby, OCaml. Apart from the language
> > qualities, both these languages have easy interfacing with C which is
> > important for real software solutions.
>
> If you are of a language theoretical bent, throw Haskell into the mix as
well.

If this is the objective, there are a lot of interesting languages. I
carefully picked OCaml for its realworld usability. Very few languages /
implementations come close to OCaml in compiler / execution quality - and
those that do are expensive.

Mikkel