Writing more efficient code

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Jon Harrop:
> OCaml's pattern matcher is very sophisticated and very fast. You'll probably
> shrink your code by several fold whilst also having it run a few orders of
> magnitude faster and having it statically checked, so it will be more
> reliable.

You seem to forget some months of time to learn OCaml.
And my Python programs seem reliable enough despite being unstatically
checked :-)


> You might want to look at any language with pattern matching: OCaml, SML,
> Haskell, F#, Mathematica etc.

Mathematica pattern matching is good, but Mathematica costs a lot of
money (and you need some time to learn it, it's not an easy system).

Bye,
bearophile