About alternatives to Matlab

[Jon Harrop]

konrad.hinsen at laposte.net wrote:
> On 10.12.2006, at 11:23, Jon Harrop wrote:
>> F# addresses this by adding operator overloading. However, you have
>> to add more type annotations...
> 
> That sounds interesting, but I'd have to see this in practice to form
> an opinion. As long as F# is a Windows-only language, I am not
> interested in it anyway.

F# runs under Linux with Mono.

>> OCaml already supports 9 architectures and optimised to AMD64
>> earlier than gcc. How many do you want?
> 
> It's not a matter of number, it's a matter of availability when new
> processors appear on the market. How much time passes on average
> between the availability of a new processor type and the availability
> of a native code compiler for OCaml?

OCaml had AMD64 support before many other language. It had a better
optimiser before gcc...

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
Objective CAML for Scientists
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