2009/9/18 arnuld uttre <[email protected]>: >>On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Michal Suchanek >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It certainly could. It seems to be sitting in the right spot on >> low-level - high-level scale when you are out for a language for >> mathematical computations. >> However, if you agree that the low-level nature of C/C++ is what makes >> it suitable for writing things like kernels then OCaml is probably not >> a better fit for such tasks. > > Yes, I really understand this fact and I really hate it too. 50 years > and only 2 languages for system softwares and hundreds for
Only two well known. iirc openfirmware or something like that uses Forth for its firmware drivers, there is BitC now. > applications, and hundreds of different hardware. They are hundreds but for dozens of different application types, too. I a sure that for a particular use only a few would be a really good match. Thanks Michal
