Francesca,
my Ubuntu CD could have been damaged. At least, I have seen that my first Mepis CD was damaged because the second one was better, but still broken (the printing did not work). Knoppix lets you try it each time you boot, you can command it to check all files on the CD. With other distributions you are left in the dark. I believe that CD is not a reliable medium. I would like to try some distributions which boot from the USB stick.
OCaml (or Objective Caml) is a functional programming language which lets you program in a procedural and object oriented style if you want to. Its main concept is functional, but it does not force anything upon you. Java, C# and Smalltalk force you into object orientation, Haskell and Clean force you into functional programming. OCaml runs on many Unixes, Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. It is type-safe and type-inferring. If you can compile the code then you can be almost sure that it is correct. It is as fast as C++. I am a big fan of it. It is similar to ML.
More under:
http://caml.inria.fr/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml
http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/
Not everybody likes it:
http://www.podval.org/~sds/ocaml-sucks.html
Regards,
Martin | | martin jasny | | Date: 2008-03-24, 13:36 GMT |
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