Re: OT: interesting talk by Jane Street technical guy on why they used Ocaml

2015-10-03 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 00:45:16 UTC, Mengu wrote: i watched this talk by yaron last year when i was looking at alternatives for sml. i was taking the programming languages course on coursera by dan grossman. ocaml looked like it tooked off at the beginning of 2000s but then due to many pr

Re: OT: interesting talk by Jane Street technical guy on why they used Ocaml

2015-10-03 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 16:33:38 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 15:58:38 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:41:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s a little old but still relevant. talks about importance of

Re: OT: interesting talk by Jane Street technical guy on why they used Ocaml

2015-10-03 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 15:58:38 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:41:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s a little old but still relevant. talks about importance of brevity and strong types for readability (also avoiding boilerpla

Re: OT: interesting talk by Jane Street technical guy on why they used Ocaml

2015-10-03 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:41:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s a little old but still relevant. talks about importance of brevity and strong types for readability (also avoiding boilerplate). two of the partners there committed to read every li

OT: interesting talk by Jane Street technical guy on why they used Ocaml

2015-10-02 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s a little old but still relevant. talks about importance of brevity and strong types for readability (also avoiding boilerplate). two of the partners there committed to read every line of code (originally because they were terrified). very hard to