On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:36, Benno wrote: > On Thu Sep 29, 2005 at 19:59:01 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > >O Plameras wrote: > > > >For just about everything you can do with a pointer in C there is > >a better, easier, less error prone way to do the same thing in > >O'caml and write less lines of code to do it. The one exception > >I can thing of is writing devices drivers and operating systems > >where you need to direct access to harware. > > Ok, you really want to make me learn O'Caml, and augment it so that > is can write device drivers, and access hardware directly, because > C is a totally inadequate language for writing device drivers.
I think you got Eric's logic arse-about. He was say O'caml is good for almost anything EXCEPT writing device drivers. Not the other way around. Or maybe your sense of irony and sarcasm is lost on me at 2am.... James -- Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.
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