1 Sep
2004
1 Sep
'04
8:32 a.m.
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:15:24 -0400
Pete Bessman <ninjadroid(a)gazuga.net> wrote:
The D programming language looks very promising in
this regard, but
its newsgroup faces a daily battle with people who seem more
interested in creating a religion than a tool.
I had a bit of a look at D and I was majorly underwhelmed. This
is a direct descendant of C, C++ and Java. It extends this lineage
a little, but completely ignores ideas from languages such as Perl,
Python, Ruby and the whole constellation of functional languges.
Now that I think about
it, that struggle seems to be a recurring theme in the world of
programming languages at large.
Has anyone else looked at O'Caml? :
http://www.ocaml.org/
I've been coding in it for about 6 weeks and I'm REALLY enjoying
it. Its the most fun I've had coding in ages.
If anyone has the FFTW sources on their machines, they already
have some O'Caml source :-). The FFTW authors wrote a program
in O'Caml to generate the C code for the codelets.
Erik
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