[linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

[Christian Schoenebeck]

Es geschah am Sonntag 05 Juni 2005 04:18 als Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb:
> I also find Ocaml a better high level language than Python because
> it is strictly and statically typed as well as compiling to native
> binaries which come close to the speed of C. The (very flawed IMO)
> language shootout puts Ocaml compiled to native binaries as faster
> than C++ but slower than C.

Hooo, that is a very brave claim, because it implies C++ binaries to be slower 
than _equivalent_ C binaries. I wonder if you can proof it or if you really 
compared it with todays C++ compilers.

> > Browsing the site, the tutorial shows code lines ending with two
> > semicola and assignments using a 'let' operator; first bitter pills
> > to swallow for a friend of code brevity to be sure.
>
> The syntax does have a few warts, but IMO no more than C++.

Which isn't hard, is it?

CU
Christian