DISQUS

Skydeck Blog: Sailing the ship of state

  • Dave J · 2 years ago
    Hey Jake, nice article. You just pushed OCaml to the top of my "programming languages to learn" list.
  • Tom · 2 years ago
    Why, the state space is not *that* big, it's just a 1 x 1 x ... x 1 order-(2^32)-hypercube. It has unit volume as well!

    Of course I agree with you on the rest. But perhaps keeping the space analogy that should be "Hubble programmers"?
  • sashan · 2 years ago
    Nice to read a sane summary of those languages. It's the conclusion I've been coming to myself.
  • Samuel · 2 years ago
    I'm curious to see a comparison of OCaml versus Oberon? Oberon also imposes very, very strong interface boundaries and I've enjoyed this language immensely. Currently, I hack in Haskell (see http://www.falvotech.com/content/cut/3), and I've had similar experiences with Haskell too.
  • Raoul Duke · 1 year ago
    i mock your current so-called higher-order languages with my dependently typed one(s)!

    ;-)

    ;-)
  • Jonas · 1 year ago
    Excellent post. We are ourselves building a finance app in Scala (which is an excellent language with great FP support), but I have to say that I somehow envy you hacking away in OCaml. :-)