[Gllug] Dealing with "Word-Only" organisations

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

On 10/11/10 15:21, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:35:07AM +0000, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
>    
>> Well call me impatient but I'd rather someone summarised those nuggets
>> for me in a short blog post,
>>      
> Here's a few:
>
> http://camltastic.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-can-ocaml-do-that-you-cant-do-in.html
>
> but really you need to learn an ML-derived language to become
> proficient in the many ways that they are better than commonly-used
> languages.
>
> Rich.
>
>    


Interesting, especially the "OCaml programs are more than 10 - 15 times 
faster and less memory intensive than Python programs." bit. I'm not 
sure I accept all his arguments though, especially the try writing it in 
C strawman, C being a mid-level language will probably always seem 
verbose compared to other languages and any decent language will have a 
module for that kind of operation, for example Python has the 
hachoir_parser module that does tcpdump and just about any other binary 
format you can name, still, interesting.

Roger

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