[ocaml-biz] the Python competitor

[William D. Neumann]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Brian Hurt wrote:

> But this is part of the problem Ocaml faces.  People see these problems-
> and they are legitimate problems- with the current popular crop of
> statically typed languages.  The trick is convincing them that solutions
> do, indeed, exist.  You can get the benefits of static type checking (and
> more) without the bondage and discipline aspects.

A lot of this was covered fairly well in the more or less classic Strong 
Typing and Perl talk given by Mark Jason Dominus way back in '99.  If you 
havent seen it yet, the slides and notes are available here 
<http://perl.plover.com/yak/typing/>.  I don't suppose too many folk out 
there read about it or cared all that much, but it's a decent starting 
point.

William D. Neumann

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