At 11:38 15/10/2002, Eray Ozkural wrote:
>your casual Mono 
>compiler took some 10^6 lines in C if you will remember. That ratio would be 
>something like 1:30, 1:40 against C, and I suspect it would still be 1:10 to 
>1:20 for C++.

Microsoft's SSCLI distribution, which is freely downloadable, includes a
fast industrial-strength C# to .NET compiler. This is written in less than
100,000 lines of C++.  By your reckoning, you should be able to write an
equivalent compiler in 5,000 lines of O'Caml.  Are you willing to produce
an example compiler to substantiate your claim?

>For a C++ compiler, the ratio would be about the same since C++ has simpler 
>semantics but a more involved syntax than well designed languages.

I'm staggered at your suggestion that C++ has a simple semantics.  To me, a
major advantage of the ML family is that their semantics is relatively simple.

Dave.
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