From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 5b1e799cdb,3ef3e78eacf6f938 X-Google-Attributes: gid5b1e799cdb,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:15:55 -0500 From: Jon Harrop Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3? Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.c++,comp.programming Followup-To: comp.programming Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:25:48 +0100 References: <2009a75f-63e7-485e-9d9f-955e456578ed@v37g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <0f8365c2-aa02-46ce-acf2-db142fffc994@p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-BioXZyswFPdvn/Bjx+lXMiqaynFgFVMLOeiWoPvTm50jZXFNyWx9iYQ3fo0vMLWWn8YMezEGuZOnrGC!xmT/mSEtBMetLkBCRby2GpBiasHhQpno7nk+fm/W4PTDYuRi7CYoAIMhk89EP92a4/Ju/nF3z1Tx!r9P2Z3FI3NvRUmS4NhHKY7Uq X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 1639 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.scheme:6166 comp.lang.ada:7421 comp.lang.functional:2521 comp.lang.c++:48543 comp.programming:12123 Date: 2009-07-29T20:25:48+01:00 List-Id: Andrea Taverna wrote: >> OCaml should probably be your #1 choice (about 2x slower than C >> usually, single core). Has its own flaws (Google "Ocaml sucks") > > That's why it was discarded. >From your options? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u