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| From: | Brian Hurt <bhurt@s...> |
| Subject: | [Caml-list] Great Programming Language Shootout Revived |
Thought I'd point this article out for the people who've stopped reading
slashdot:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/16/1622211&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=156&tid=185&tid=90
The original GPLS was the best advertising Ocaml ever had. It's why I
learned Ocaml- I discovered the original GPLS and started noticing Ocaml
ranking among the top scorers for fastest execution, least memory used,
and fewest lines of code, and said to myself "I've got to check that
language out- obviously there's something going on there."
What's starting to happen, now that the project has started up again, is
advocates/supporters of other languages have started to submit improved
versions of the code for their languages. For example, I notice that
Ocaml has dropped from it's #1 place in least lines of code to #2, with
Ruby taking the lead.
I don't think we need to make a big thing out of this (hey, #2 across the
board is pretty damned good- we're beating both Java and C++ across the
board, in fact the only other language that comes close to Ocaml's
performance is, unsurprisingly, version of SML- MLton and SML/NJ). But if
you have some spare time, and want to help out Ocaml's marketing, wander
over.
--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
- Gene Spafford
Brian
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