> We are now running machines that are 1ghz to 3ghz. > > To suggest that OCAML is the only way or that it is "super critical" > to making a fast compiler is, to me, ludicrous.
That was actually my comment :) But I never said that Ocaml was the only way to make a compiler. Try to read my mail again. Basicly the meaning was that OCaml and in general ML languages (Haskell, SML, ...) are the best languages available for writing compilers. It's a big lost of time of trying to write a compiler in C/C++ as the author suggested. To give you an order of comparison, it would be the same as writing for example a Bank account manager GUI system in assembler ! This is not about speed. OCaml is very fast and that's a big plus, but the flexibility and the power of the language enable people to write compilers in days instead of months/years using other languages. That require a lot of training before, since you need to learn a new language, a new syntax, and even a new way of thinking about programming. But looks like the vast majority of people seems to be always afraid of learning new things ;) Nicolas _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
