Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Lisp

[Dustin Sallings]

On Nov 20, 2003, at 16:13, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

> That's why I love Ada and Objective Caml; when it compiles,
> it works (and yes, the goal is to have it compile the first time,
> using "write without thinking, compile, fix, compile, fix" until it
> works won't give good results in any language).

	Well, ``write without thinking hard'' works pretty well for me most of 
the time.  :)

> If you like the expressivity of ML, you might also like the one of
> Haskell, which is very impressive.
>
> Paul> The standard library may not be as extensive as Python's, but it
> Paul> is well-rounded, has a consistent API, and is very fast.
>
> Yup, its non-lazyness makes it easier to write good compilers
> (compared to Haskell, whose lazyness is very handy when writing code
> but makes writing good compilers very hard).

	As a language, Haskell is very nice, I agree.  In addition to making 
it very easy to express yourself, there's also literate Haskell.  It's 
really the speed that's keeping me from doing anything significant in 
it.  I can use a little Ocaml in many places where I would've otherwise 
written a lot of tedious C code...and it's a lot more fun (no pun 
intended).

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Dustin Sallings