Am Montag, den 21.12.2009, 15:19 +0100 schrieb Keyan: > Hi, > > i have a large project written in C++, for which i am planing to write > add-ons and tools in ocaml, e.g. different tools to analyse my code > (dependency stuff), an interpreter for a script-language i plan to include, > etc, etc. form my time at the uni i remembered that ocaml allows to compile > libraries which can be included in c/c++ program, and i know people who use > it extensively in other projects. therefore, i decided to give ocaml a try. i > like functional programming, and my first steps with ocaml are very promising. > > following this discussion, i am not so sure anymore, if ocaml is a good > decision. may be i got this discussion wrong, but if ocaml is dying out, i > might have to look for another functional programming language to use with my > project. > > please dont take this email as an offence. i am just curious. at this point, > i can still easily look for an alternative to ocaml, so its best to ask now.
Please don't believe Jon's propaganda. He has just very specific needs (high performance computing on desktops), and generalizes them in the way "it's not perfect for me anymore, so it's bad anyway". He has been doing that for years now, not seeing that he really harms the way ocaml is seen by newcomers. The examples you mention are good matches for using ocaml - symbolic programming with lots of terms and trees. That's the stuff ocaml was originally developed for, and it delivers excellence performance. Also, ocaml is still backed by INRIA, and there is still a large community, including a growing number of industrial users. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann, Bad Nauheimer Str.3, 64289 Darmstadt,Germany g...@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
