On 28-07-2012 09:58, Stuart wrote:
On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 07:45:20 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 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........?
Uh, yeah? Aside from C (which doesn't always support tail call
optimisation), and F#, none of these languages would seem to have any
purpose on a desktop computer. I don't know of any way, in this day and
age, to write application software (e.g. Notepad) for a 32 or 64-bit
Windows 7 machine, in goddamn Haskell. I may be mistaken.
Some of the most robust and reliable server systems are written in Erlang.
OCaml is basically F# but in native code. It isn't actually much
different from using D in terms of capabilities.
Clojure runs on the JVM. It can do native invokes just like Java.
Scheme has FFI.
As I understand it, languages like Scheme and Cojure exist solely to
keep mathematicians happy. If you can't call API functions in it, what's
the use of it?
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