On Tuesday 04 October 2005 23:39, Christopher A. Watford wrote:
> This list is best for asking OCaml questions and is awful for asking
> for what language is best for what, nobody agrees.

Oliver was asking which of three programming paradigms is best under different 
circumstances. OCaml provides all three so I think this can be taken as an 
OCaml-specific question and is fine for this list.

I for one would be very interested in reading information on this. I'll check 
out the design patterns paper - thanks Michael.

My impression is that:

1. Data structure heavy code is often easier to write in a functional style. 
See the "n"th-nearest neighbour example from my book:

  http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/complete/

2. GUI code is more easily written with a stateful imperative front and often 
a functional back end.

I have yet to really exploit OCaml's OO capabilities.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
Objective CAML for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists