Hello there I've a question. I am a sworn C/C++/Java programmer (I'm not planning on changing), but after taking CS 330, I've been considering learning a metalanguage. I am interested on a language that has fast running time, and if it is possible, that it is easily compiled into native code.
After the language presentations in CS 330 (we had presentations on JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl and Dylan), I wanted to find out how much slower are metalanguages compared to the traditional imperative languages (like C, C++, Java, Pascal, C#, etc) I've been surfing the Internet looking for benchmark tests, and something that really caught my eye was OCaml. It seems to be compiled, and its benchmarks were comparable to those of C, C++, Java and .NET languages. Anyone has experience with OCaml and would like to share with us some of it? Any other ML that are compiled? (I know you can compile Lisp and other stuff with some special programs, but I would like to see a ML that was designed to be compiled to native code like OCaml) Chris Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] ext. 1-3837 IS&T Web Applications Services Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions http://www.novell.com ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
