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Re: Why Objective Caml?

Victor — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:17:32 -0000

There is one more benefit from programming in OCaml compared with Python, Lisp, Java, etc. It is the comparably strong type system and automatic types inference.

I also chose OCaml to program arithmetic and I am really very pleased with my choice.

Nowdays I use OCaml to do many other things as well, and learning OCaml and functional programming was an enlightening experience.

So, wish you good luck

Re: Why Objective Caml?

Isaac Gouy — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:09:41 -0000

> OCaml consistently kicks the collective butts...

Strange that you compared OCaml to the slower Java -client instead of Java -server
[Java -server](http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ocaml&lang2=java)

Strange not to compare OCaml with other compiled languages rather than with interpreted languages like Python, Perl and Ruby.