On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:24:07PM +0900, Michael Neumann wrote:
> There are several languages (e.g. OCaml, Clean or Sather I know of) that
> claim to be as fast (or even faster) than unoptimized C code.
> There's even one, that claims to be twice as fast as C, at least comparing
> it's Qsort against
> the one of C's standard lib. It's called FISh:
> http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~cbj/FISh/index.html
I heard of fish!! I wanted to learn it before I found ruby but it's
documentation was too dense for me and I wasn't familiar enough with functional
programming languages to figure it out. I find that to be a problem with alot of
functional languages. Same goes for alot of the research that comes out of the
universities. I would love to try out some of their stuff but it is much too
dense. Ruby may be slower but at least I can understand it.

Chris Moline