Re: convincing management to switch to Ocaml

From: Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/caml/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 20:36:52 MET DST


To: caml-list@inria.fr
From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/caml/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: convincing management to switch to Ocaml
Date: 26 Aug 1999 14:36:52 -0400

>>>>> "John" == John Skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au> writes:
> Wrong. C++ is type safe, provided you don't use casts.

And several other C constructs like unions, arrays, varargs, manual
memory management, ...

I wish my crond and other similar daemons were written in O'Caml
or some other safe language. After all, where is bit-twiddling
(or CPU-performance as opposed to IO and algorithm speed) required
in those programs anyway ?

        Stefan



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