[ocaml-biz] strategy bullet point list

[William D. Neumann]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

Two minor points:

> - C++ is neither high level nor type safe.  Java and C# do not offer
> performance, and OCaml is better at HLL features and type safety.

I really know jack about C#, so there may be a simple, valid counterpoint, 
but if one looks at the recently revived language shootout 
<http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/index.php>, C# ranks ahead of OCaml in 
raw speed.  So if we're going to claim that C# does not offer performance, 
we're going to have to come up with a valid explanation of why it ranks 
ahead of OCaml on that scorecard...

> - OCaml is a systems language, not a scripting language.  It competes
> with other systems languages.

While I agree with the point that OCaml is competing against system 
languages, I just wonder if there's any value in also pointing out that it 
makes a much better scripting language than any of the other systems 
languages we're looking at (with the possible exception of python).

William D. Neumann

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