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On 2009-07-18, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:

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|"Andrea Taverna <a.tavs.NOSPAM@libero.it.invalid> writes:                    |
|<snip>                                                                       |
|> In the past I used C, but now I have decided to change language.           |
|> I'm looking for a "better" one.                                            |
|>                                                                            |
|> Here follow the features it should have, ranked approximately by relevance:|
|>                                                                            |
|> 0) open-source support and an alive community                              |
|> 1) directly compiled to efficient code                                     |
|> 2) statically typed and object-oriented, better if multi-paradigm          |
|> 3) general-purpose libraries (possibly standardized, either by             |
|> standard or de facto), including containers and some math                  |
|> abstractions.                                                              |
|> 4) garbage collected. As an alternative, provide memory management         |
|> policies via libraries (e.g. memory pools and such)                        |
|> 5) optional run-time checks and some kind of control over compilation      |
|> and low-level issues                                                       |
|> 6) "relatively simple and consistent"                                      |
|>                                                                            |
|> So I have considered these alternatives: FreePascal, Eiffel, Ada and       |
|> Modula-3.                                                                  |
|                                                                             |
|Other people have been adding to your list but Objective Caml is still       |
|missing.  It ticks all you boxes."                                           |
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Why Objective Caml instead of JoCaml; G'Caml; Chamau; BIGLOO; HimML;
CeML; or Gaml?