Re: The non-freeness of OCAML (Was: Re: Comparison of various functional languages?)

Article View: comp.lang.functional

Article #1220

Back to comp.lang.functional Previous Next

#1220

From: Ed Avis
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:00

18 lines
1943 bytes

mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at wrote:

>we also try to promote the idea of FP. So why support a technology
>(IP) we consider inferior?

Surely you want to give your competition a sporting chance.  It's not
very convincing to withold useful code from your competitors, then
claim that FP is superior because it has these features and imperative
languages don't.  After all, I'm sure that many ideas which originated
in imperative programming are useful for FP as well.  (Interpreters
and optimizing compilers, for a start.)

Better to let as many people as possible use the technology, so it can
be refined and improved upon.  But I'd guess that it would make the
most difference in FP, so you can still (fairly) point out advantages.

--
Ed Avis

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3725D699.332FC3A5@doc.ic.ac.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References:

<87aew9agkw.fsf@padova.cnet.com> <7f5l3o$r6r@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> <87btgpldhv.fsf_-_@ugh.jyu.fi.invalid> <7f6sqi$bjq@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> <87k8vcn7ga.fsf@ugh.jyu.fi.invalid> <7f8bot$18j@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> <7ffcc0$mc7$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <7fgg6c$3it@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> <7fjn60$bjj$1@izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au> <7fq548$2uk@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 107f24,8f092766f1b7cf8b
X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public
X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,653c2e4cab54a9ac
X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public
From: Ed Avis <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: The non-freeness of OCAML (Was: Re: Comparison of various functional languages?)
Date: 1999/04/27
Message-ID: <3725D699.332FC3A5@doc.ic.ac.uk>
X-Deja-AN: 471498614
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <87aew9agkw.fsf@padova.cnet.com> <7f5l3o$r6r@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> <87btgpldhv.fsf_-_@ugh.jyu.fi.invalid> <7f6sqi$bjq@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> <87k8vcn7ga.fsf@ugh.jyu.fi.invalid> <7f8bot$18j@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> <7ffcc0$mc7$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <7fgg6c$3it@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> <7fjn60$bjj$1@izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au> <7fq548$2uk@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Complaints-To: usenet@doc.ic.ac.uk
X-Trace: lux.doc.ic.ac.uk 925226649 21734 146.169.50.2 (27 Apr 1999 15:24:09 GMT)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Mime-Version: 1.0
NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Apr 1999 15:24:09 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional,gnu.misc.discuss

Reply to Parent Message