On Thursday 24 April 2008 19:23:31 Ola Bini wrote: > Hmm. Tell me what the JVM misses that .NET has with regards to OCaml and > F#. Because I really can't figure out what it would be.
Tail calls has to be the single biggest omission. There are others like first-class functions and custom value types. > Also, stating the compellability of OCaml/F# over Lisp/Scheme is > something I'm definitely against. (I'm against the converse too, of course) I mean the examples for OCaml/F# seem a lot more compelling to me (e.g. MATLAB, Windows, Halo 3, MSN Live). Perhaps that is just my perspective. YMMV. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
