Thread: Would you use this programming language?
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Unread 3 May 2007, 22:09   #9
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Re: Would you use this programming language?
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Originally Posted by pablissimo
That's pretty much what these guys concluded. The study's not in any way an exhaustive language comparison but it, in this particular example, pegged Lisp as an order of magnitude slower than the best OCaml implementations, probably due to OCaml's compiler being able to insert type declarations to avoid inference at run-time.
I think the lisp syntax makes it superior to OCaml - its the syntax that really brings out what is going on in the underlying evaluation model. Yeah, OCaml is a functional language and you can theoretically do everything in it that you can in lisp, but the richer syntax makes it a lot harder to treat code as data. You couldnt really have the power of the Lisp macro system in OCaml for instance.

I havent used OCaml that much though (only used it for a fortnight or so to see what it was like), so perhaps it has other features which balance this out.
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