On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 09:05:13 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen
wrote:
On 28-07-2012 09:58, Stuart wrote:
On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 07:45:20 UTC, Alex Rønne
Petersen wrote:
On 28-07-2012 09:36, Stuart wrote:
On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 21:59:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
- Scheme
- Haskell
- OCaml
- F#
- Erlang
- Clojure
- Some C and C++ compilers (gcc, Intel, MSVC in release
mode)
- Most commercial Lisp compilers
So, as I said, nothing you can write a real program in -
except possibly
for F#. The possibility of "some" C compilers supporting it
doesn't mean
you can rely on the feature being present.
Are you serious........?
Uh, yeah? Aside from C (which doesn't always support tail call
optimisation), and F#, none of these languages would seem to
have any
purpose on a desktop computer. I don't know of any way, in
this day and
age, to write application software (e.g. Notepad) for a 32 or
64-bit
Windows 7 machine, in goddamn Haskell. I may be mistaken.
Some of the most robust and reliable server systems are written
in Erlang.
OCaml is basically F# but in native code. It isn't actually
much different from using D in terms of capabilities.
I tend to favour F# instead of OCaml due to three things:
- Visual Studio integration means I can sneak its use in my PC
- As Microsoft language is an easy sell to the boss and clients
- It has better multicore support as OCaml, which still suffers
from a global lock
--
Paulo
