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From: israel r t <israelrt@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: True faiths ( was Re: The true faith )
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:49:59 +1100
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:56:04 GMT, Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
wrote:

>Obviously the winner is any compiled (fast), GCed, GFing, MI dynamic
>language with macros. Mature, an ANSII standard and a free
>implementation would not hurt either. hang on...

And Ocaml wins again !  :-)

No macros though...
Lots of currying and and higher order functions however.

And speeeeeeed !
( As if it really matters with commodity 2 GHz processors... )