Re: Announcing JGNAT public version 1.0p

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:55:55 GMT, hugin777@my-deja.com <hugin777@my-deja.com> wrote:
>PS: I do not really _want_ to calculate primes :-) I just wanted to see
>how it looked like in ML, Ada and Java. But when I ran it I got a
>surprise !!
>
>PPS: I have just begun studying CS in Denmark (DIKU, Copenhagen), where
>they apparently love ML. I haven't met others interested in Ada yet.
>They all seem to prefer the short'n'fast way of ML; sadly. Maybe there's
>no hope for them... ;-)

ML and Ada aren't really in competition. Ada is a safety orientated, strongly
typed imperative langauage. ML is a writablity orientated, weirdly typed (-:,
functional language. ML's an excellent language to do prototypes and proofs
of concept in, whereas Ada and most other low level (compared to ML) languages
aren't. OTOH, ML usually isn't the appropriate language for a shipping
product. 

Last time I tried to run a big program in ML, it got bogged down, 
swapping stuff in and out of core. When I tried rewriting in Ada, I kept 
having bugs in what ML did automatically (my lists implementation, 
in specific). 

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU