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From: Friedrich Dominicus <frido@q-software-solutions.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: True faiths ( was Re: The true faith )
Date: 12 Jan 2002 09:42:48 +0100
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olczyk@interaccess.com (Thaddeus L Olczyk) writes:

> n Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:49:59 +1100, israel r t
> <israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >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...
Not fully correct see
http://caml.inria.fr/camlp4/

> >Lots of currying and and higher order functions however.
> >
> >And speeeeeeed !
> >( As if it really matters with commodity 2 GHz processors... )
> Hmmm. Is there a version of ML that supports macros?
Well I think it's Ocaml.

Regards
Friedrich