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OCaml is quick to write and produces executables with great performance.

• greyman 18y ago
  Ok, but if you would be a project manager responsible for developing and delivering software product, would you choose non-mainstream language for the project? OCaml might be better in academic sense as the language itself, but now I talk about commercial product...so you would need to take all factors of software development into consideration - like how you will find future developers if you expand, what the support will be, etc. etc.
  • jrockway 18y ago
    Adding a bunch of "what ifs" to justify your choice of language is not a good argument technique. "What if your manager is paid by Sun to only advocate Java?" There's no way to argue that, but it doesn't matter, because it's irrelevant. Pick the langauge you want to use.
    • greyman 18y ago
      >> Pick the langauge you want to use. I can't, because I am just one worker and the language is choosen by the top product manager. That's not a complaint, my point was that you usually can not choose a language you want to use in professional setting. You can do so for your hobby project.
      • jrockway 18y ago
        Leave and start a competing company that Does Things Better because you spend your time solving problems, not debugging pointers. :)