On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:06:45PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:04:47PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
>
> Statement:
>
> > (And _boy_ can you write obfuscated Ocaml programs if you try!
> > User-definable infix operators are an especially nice touch in
> > that regard)
>
> Answer:
>
> > Why isn't Ocaml more popular? Is there a good reason?
:-)
I don't find that enormously convincing as a reason, though.
You may have noticed that it's possible to write obfuscated
Perl programs ;)
C++ is also pretty bad in that respect (I still don't *quite*
believe that overloadable typecasting isn't a joke...), and
is pretty popular...
I suppose one reason is that in order to be popular, a language
has to syntactically resemble C to make it easier for existing
programmers to learn.
.robin.
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"It really depends on the architraves." --Harl
