Laurent Deniau wrote:
Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Jon Harrop wrote:
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 08:41, Henning Thielemann wrote:
Penetration is highest in parts of industry where small groups of talented programmers get together, most notably startups. Look at XenSource, Wolfram Research, The MathWorks, ?? Mathematica and MatLab are just the opposite of statically safe
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Jon Harrop wrote: programming. Absolutely. I was referring to a prototype Mathematica JIT compiler (developed in OCaml),
interesting
the FFT routines in MATLAB (FFTW: written in OCaml) and the SML software that The MathWorks sell.
I see, but FFTW was not developed by MathWorks, but by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson (says fftw.org),
Right, and it is not written in OCaml but in C. The OCaml code _generates_ optimized C code for the arch where it matters.
That sounds like 'written in ocaml' to me. That's no more written in C than java code is written in assembly, just because the JIT generates optimised assembly code... I would say it's "written in" the language which the authors wrote it. The fact that they wrote it to generate some C code and then compile it: well, they're just a clever bunch :-) Jules