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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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On 24 Jul., 11:31, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> tm wrote:
> > Simplicity of languages and their implementation got lost somehow...
>
> The F# team at Microsoft used to advertise that their compiler was under
> 10kLOC.

Is is possible to verify this claim?
Is the F# compiler released as open source?
Is it available on "all" operating systems?
What about the (guessed) 100MB DLLs which are used?
Do you trust a quasi monopolist?

You may have your reasons to push F# all the time, but
there are also open questions (see above).

I also think that it is not a good idea to use a language
dominated by a big company.

Seed7 is not owned by a company. Instead it is released as
open source. You can look how the features are implemented
and everybody is invited to join the project.

BTW: Seed7 has different goals than F# and its philosophy is
more close to what the OP is interested in.

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage:  http://seed7.sourceforge.net
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.