Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp

[Dustin Sallings]

On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:38, Colin Walters wrote:

> Another language that's good to learn just for learning (and isn't 
> quite
> "mainstream") is Objective Caml.  It's a very cool language too; the
> compiler is amazing.  But unlike Scheme and CL, I do occasional
> programming in OCaml for real work.

	I'll have to second ocaml.  It's displacing python as a general 
purpose language for me.  It doesn't ship with the library of tools 
python does[0], but inferred static typing means not having to wait 
until your program's been running for a couple of hours to realize you 
passed the wrong variable to a function under a specific condition 
(that was killing me in both a python and scheme version of an app I 
was working on).

	It's also insanely fast.  I'm used to high level languages sacrificing 
speed for ease of use.  ocaml gives a good deal of both.

[0]:  Supposedly you can use perl libraries with it, but I'm not sure 
about that idea just yet.

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Dustin Sallings