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<br><div><div>On Oct 15, 2007, at 15:43 , Lone Wolf wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Recently, I have been trying to learn a language other than Java.<br>Erlang seems to be ready for the prime time (used in the commercial world).<br>On the other side, OCaml seems to be a cool and capable language.<br>I want to learn something useful and fun.<br>Tell what do you think ?<br>(if you are Erlang die-hard, please put this aside ;))<br></span></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Why choose? I've learned a lot from each language.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I do admit that I've shipped more ocaml code than erlang code, though. ocaml is great for building utilities and erlang is great for building systems. It really depends on your task.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>OTP really seems to me like what java wants to be when it grows up.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-- </div><div>Dustin Sallings</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>