On Tue, 3 May 2005 15:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Vanier
I also learned ocaml before learning haskell,
I'm a long term C, Python and (yuck) C++ programmer who picked up Ocaml about 9 months ago. I picked Ocaml over Haskell because I thought I needed objects, but I have yet to find a place where I actually needed them because the Ocaml's variant types are so powerful. The vast majority of my Ocaml code is purely functional and I'm quite happy with higher order functions, closures, continuations and all the other FP goodness. I lurk here to expand my horizons :-).
Another big difference between ocaml and haskell is that haskell has type classes and ocaml does not.
Type classes I grok and I can see their advantage.
However, the biggest advantage that ocaml has over haskell is that for most applications, an ocaml program will run faster, perhaps a lot faster, than an equivalent haskell program
This for me is a big win because most of my code requires a lot of pure number crunching. That leaves one aspect of Haskell vs Ocaml I don't yet understand. What are the advantages of lazy evaluation? Cheers, Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." -- Martin Golding