Re: Perl6 vs Ocaml (was Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6)

2003-03-14 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Mar 11 15:45:12 2003, Nick Woolley wrote: So, judging by this reccomendation and others I've seen, if I were going to learn a new language, it might be Ocaml. I arrived at the same conclusion a while ago. Can anyone compare and contrast Perl6 and Ocaml? I'm not able to do so in

Re: Perl6 vs Ocaml (was Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6)

2003-03-14 Thread Nick Woolley
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 5:37 pm, Greg McCarroll wrote: however I can say that ML[1] is very rewarding until you try and do anything involving interactive user input in it, then there is a hurdle which you must cross and after that follows blind devotion and madness. Apparently OCaml has GTK

Re: Perl6 vs Ocaml (was Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6)

2003-03-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nick Woolley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 5:37 pm, Greg McCarroll wrote: however I can say that ML[1] is very rewarding until you try and do anything involving interactive user input in it, then there is a hurdle which you must cross and after that follows blind

Perl6 vs Ocaml (was Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6)

2003-03-11 Thread Nick Woolley
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 12:27 pm, Shevek wrote: Languages like ADA95 (I think), C++ (somewhat) [more examples?] Perl5 uses closures. Perl6 has curried functions (which I've never really come across in any other languages I've used). I mentioned this to someone, who said that his language of