In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Donn Cave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My vote would be Haskell first, then other functional languages. > > Learning FP with Objective CAML is like learning to swim in a > > wading pool -- you won't drown, but there's a good chance you > > won't really learn to swim either. Has an interesting, very > > rigorous OOP model though. > > I'm not sure what you mean by that about OCAML. That its functional > model is not pure enough? I'd like to look at Haskell as well, but I > have the impression that its implementation is not as serious as > OCaml's, i.e. no native-code compiler. On the contrary, there are a couple. Ghc is probably the leading implementation these days, and by any reasonable measure, it is serious. Objective CAML is indeed not a pure functional language. Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
