On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:45:19 +0200 Alex Rønne Petersen <a...@lycus.org> wrote:
> On 28-07-2012 09:36, Stuart wrote: > > On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 21:59:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: > >> > >> - Scheme > >> - Haskell > >> - OCaml > >> - F# > >> - Erlang > >> - Clojure > >> - Some C and C++ compilers (gcc, Intel, MSVC in release mode) > >> - Most commercial Lisp compilers > > > > So, as I said, nothing you can write a real program in - except > > possibly for F#. The possibility of "some" C compilers supporting > > it doesn't mean you can rely on the feature being present. > > Are you serious........? > I would tend to agree with him, unless you're being overly literal. Obviously you *can* do real programs in C/C++, hell I've done it (and I am doing it, much to my dismay) - but it's notoriously painful. As for the rest, yea, sure, stuff *has* been written in them, but regardless, most of them still just aren't *realistically* suitable for most software development. It's just like how somebody once write a high-precision Pi calculator in MS Batch. They pulled it off, and it works, but that doesn't mean Batch is realistically suitable as a numeric processing language. Writing real software in, for example, Haskell is like calculating high-precision Pi in Batch. It can be done, but it takes a masochist.
