-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA384 On 04/22/2014 21:15, Christof Leng wrote: > I was very happy with Standard ML (non-object-oriented > 'predecessor' of OCAML) for writing complex P2P systems and even > user-land transport protocols.
Agreed. I use the Caml part of OCaml. :) > Functional programming and static typing helps to discover subtle > bugs that go unnoticed in imperative languages (and I'm not talking > about something as ridiculous as buffer overruns). > > Unfortunately, Stevens requirement of familiarity still speaks > against functional programming languages, even for something as > popular (and watered-down) as Scala. It's very hard to find code > contributors who know the language or are willing to learn it. But if you have a chance to start from scratch, you should look at possible solutions and use a viable one. Especially the readability and maintainability of a programming language should be considered. Otherwise you end up with a piece of code which is not maintainable once the PhDs have graduated. You have to pay the technical debt at some point. And I'm not sure how to hand over a research project to 'the open source community'... Are there best practices/guidelines availble? I think the OCaml community is rather larger compared to other functional programming languages, and it is very helpful. Both the real world ocaml book, available online https://realworldocaml.org/, and their package management system OPAM, are awesome contributions over the last years to easily start with OCaml and to get more people involved. Cheers, Hannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCQAGBQJTVstHAAoJELyJZYjffCjuUqcQAKFUvtAfbLu2yU3EEkR5Mjsv N9f19Ao0tIvmU6PmQAEfrdXNhs1e19xFSseaLPEQibxWBbYXTzx+J0es+/H6a116 CcrZ8N51kM/aOydnRTk2NmoP1BYh9X+S3bQRLPu/lYipgYVyuV7ohzZMqmrguARu 15uWjqmvaDahYZhuu4tnfksggveL59pF/08UA5xd8wZ3I+XMiXB7JviN3Mii2rbk 8BjWFFXW66xQGSxg+nsIp+rGiX6r12gCNZZHJHSoQGcmbalGPVF+o2r7+j+D2ZcC n/tXVVgIy2TO+7mxp+ueX+OK5p+YDqOzFTPDKQhARVP+EjEqZXPRKY4YkgMno8ug 7CT4yCuV84gdrNfudOFKTOx4G0k/4OSZzPVn/g1i9vmqAUU8z6UUBr9tjSR1jZq6 iZqDBGkz34550DlPhxE3mwdFh/woBv2ExgrOvM3iSX/dtKBa7p/fCGNHX17dEIgW 0d1DKQatRjuIGIdAjowy8CuJ4rPceoqoObPutLYVw+PeMfSencjDmf9bmXgFI3jB WU6Jo+akCd/BlvABnV2qLnJXqbo3ixM0B7WbI+c5EyQaPapS5J4Im+b66EE9o57Y Ab5Vf7h0GLVovA+VFXbnNCjoiawQo8rKU276Lwid7i8ZByQhm7iX/obMPTQchyKU z5MCXzwWyXnFRt8MbI+G =N6Jn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
