| Josh Goldstein on 17 Jun 2008 06:50:06 -0700 |
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I had an 'advanced' class using SML, so you could say I have some experience. Before tht I had mostly used Scheme, Java and C. I found the type system pretty neat! So, I looked at OCaml once and it seemed to do almost the exact same stuff, but with a slightly messier syntax. IIRC, it's supposed to be better for more computationally intensive things because it has faster/more compact 2D arrays. I had found a nice page at one point comparing SML and OCaml, listing how you do everything in each language side-by-side with how you do it in the other language, and the OCaml syntax was always worse. They seemed close enough that if you loved the type system, pattern matching, etc. in SML you'd get used to OCaml super fast anyway. But I figured why bother
with OCaml since I'm not writing anything like weather/NASA simulations anyway.
Just my 2 cents :)
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