[ocaml-biz] adjectives about OCaml

[Martin Jambon]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> >
> >   high level, safe, fast, pragmatic
>
> Maybe 'robust' is better than 'safe'.  To me, 'safe' has the connotation
> of 'boring'.  Maybe 'high performance' is a better mantra than 'fast'.
> Just sounds flashier.
> So:
>
>     high level, high performance, robust, pragmatic
>
> Of these, if you twisted my arm to make me drop a descriptor, I'd drop
> 'pragmatic'.  It sounds a little redundant if something is indeed high
> level, high performance, and robust.  So that would narrow it down to:
>
>     high level, high performance, robust

and expressive (implying readable and concise)
(high level without losing flexibility)

For me 'safe' is very often equivalent to anti-innovation, so I would
avoid it too.

I still like fast (because saying 'fast' is faster than saying 'high
performance'). 'fast' alone would be negative (reminds me of Fortran or
Assembler) but combined with a qualitative description it seems positive
to me.

Here we have 3 adjectives:
  expressive, fast, robust
  (for the dreamer)
              (for the end-user)
                    (for the investor)

Martin