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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester wrote:
> Why Objective Caml instead of JoCaml; G'Caml; Chamau; BIGLOO; HimML;
> CeML; or Gaml?

None of them have alive communities except Bigloo which is a Scheme
implementation and, therefore, is not statically typed.

In contrast, OCaml has a substantial community, lots of libraries and offers
superb performance with one of the most expressive static type systems in
existence. OCaml's proprietary cousin at Microsoft, F#, is also a superb
high-performance language.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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