Subj : Re: any function to handle this kind of counting?
To   : comp.programming
From : Alex Fraser
Date : Sat Jul 30 2005 08:35 pm

"Jon Harrop" <usenet@jdh30.plus.com> wrote in message
news:42ebb215$0$14673$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> Alex Fraser wrote:
> > "Jon Harrop" <usenet@jdh30.plus.com> wrote in message
> > news:42eaec30$0$14690$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> > [snip]
> >> Well-written C equivalents using the non-trivial data structures would
> >> require hundreds of lines of code.
> >
> > Well-written C equivalents would consist of relatively few lines of
> > code
>
> The C will not "consist of relatively few lines of code" compared to the
> OCaml.

Relatively few compared to "hundreds of lines".

> > and use existing implementations of the non-trivial data structures,
> > similar to the OCaml you posted.
>
> No, that is not similar to the OCaml I posted because the OCaml programs
> are self-contained and either use lists (which are native to the
> language) or data structures found in the OCaml stdlib.

Why does that make a difference?

Alex

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