Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 01:48 pm

Jon Harrop wrote:

> The poor performance of Java relative to OCaml just goes to show that having
> hundreds of compiler-writers in big business is not as good as having a
> single good language designer.

You all have been giving OCaml a lot of press here. Whats good about it? A
look at Wakypedia shows that it needs lots of odd puncuation and "let", which
I thought went out with Basic. Plus the example is clearly for an interpreter
(it has a shell specifier at the top). Why don't you tell us what makes OCaml
so much better, instead of just repeating it like a mantra ?

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