[Ocaml-biz] The strategic future of OCaml for 2..4 years

[Tony Edgin]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:46, Tony Edgin wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 04:32, Brian Hurt wrote:

> Because of the maturity of Matlab and its ubiquity in academics and
> engineering industry, there is a growing number of applications being
> written in Matlab.  Matlab has a fullfledged type-inferred programming
> language with as well as extensive graphics, math, and engineering domain
> libraries.   The developers of these applications come upon a few problems
> eventually.  First, any customer which wants to use the developers' app
> needs Matlab, which will cost them $2000 or more.  Second, it is dog slow. 
> When speed becomes an issue, the standard is to migrate to C.  Matlab has
> features which allow the developer to migrate incrementally to C, Fortran
> or Java.

Funny this, I just got a RFB for converting ~30 000 lines of Matlab to C++ or 
Java.

cheers,
-- 
Tony Edgin