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Re: Question about CLisp, Dylan, Haskell, Ocaml

In article <92u0o9$6af$1@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>,
  "Daniel C. Wang" <danwang+news@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Rolf Wester <rolf.wester@t-online.de> writes:
> > First
> > I considered CLisp but also found some other interesting languages
such
> > as Dylan, Haskell and Ocaml. Is there someone who can tell me
> > about the differences of these languages, what kind of applications
this
> > languages are best suited for and the how easy it is to combine code
> > with C-code.
>
> I think, most people familiar with all the languages, would say OCaml
is
> most likely what you want. Though Dylan, may be okay too, but I think
OCaml
> is a more mature and lean development environment. Once SML/NJ gets a
better
> FFI, I'd probably recomended it over OCaml.. but I have my biases.
>
> > I know that this is much a question of taste. To repeat I don't
want to
> > begin a language war but
> > would be thankful for objective assesments.
>
> I don't think this is an issue of taste, objectively the ML/family of
> languages are probably best suited for your problem.
>
>


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