[Shootout-list] ML OCaml?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Isaac Gouy wrote:
> Brandon Van Every wrote:
>
> > OCaml is an active research language ... I don't think OCaml-ites
> > wish
> > to be hobbled by the perception that their language is "yet another
> > academic ML, as unpopular as all the other academic MLs."
>
> So it is "an active research language"
> but not "another academic ML" :-)

I can offer extensive private commentary on that to anyone who's
interested.  Publically, to avoid a long off-topic post, I'll just say
that it's a question of degree.  INRIA is an academic body and views
OCaml as a research project.  However, it has made many more concessions
to industrial reality than the SML guys have.


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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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