Effective ML - Yaron Minsky • Hacker News Board

Re: Effective ML - Yaron Minsky

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Post by exim » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 8:33 PM UTC

sophacles wrote: post #3

ajays wrote: post #2

Dated: 2010/08/21 Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809346 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624997 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624041 Before you submit a URL to HN, try this query on Google: link:(your URL) site:news.ycombinator.com

Occasional reposts are OK. You may have seen it before, but I haven't. In the 18+ months since the last time it was posted, here are some things that have happened: * new people have joined the site who haven't seen it. * people who previously had no interest in ML became interested * people have gained experience and insight which gives a new light to the video, perhaps having new things to say. * the ability to com…

Actually, when I did accidentally reposted something, I was redirected to the original HN post, and automatically upvoted it. This happened several times. Not sure, maybe there is some time threshold...

EDIT: Apparently there is :) as it was mentioned here.

Re: Effective ML - Yaron Minsky

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Post by rsanchez1 » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 2:29 AM UTC

ajays wrote: post #2

Dated: 2010/08/21 Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809346 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624997 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624041 Before you submit a URL to HN, try this query on Google: link:(your URL) site:news.ycombinator.com

Or they could just move that scrollbar to the bottom of the page, find the search box in the bottom-center, and type in the URL.

Re: Effective ML - Yaron Minsky

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Post by rsanchez1 » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 2:33 AM UTC

Even if it is an old post, I have to say that Yaron Minsky is a good source for learning OCaml. I learned a good deal of it trying to figure out how his Planets gravity simulation worked, and then porting the algorithm to javascript. Here is his program:

http://planets.homedns.org/

Re: Effective ML - Yaron Minsky

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Post by Cieplak » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 3:15 AM UTC

What are your feelings on OCaml vs Haskell?

Re: Effective ML - Yaron Minsky

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Post by afrozenator » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:34 AM UTC

Cieplak wrote: post #14

What are your feelings on OCaml vs Haskell?

I've found Haskell to be much much 'cleaner' than OCaml (syntax wise) and intellectually more stimulating (probably because that is the first functional language I started learning).

My tilt towards OCaml these days is primarily due to it's reported speed (measured to be faster than GNU C on some benchmarks, I don't have the link handy, though Jane Street is using it for HFT, should be quick) and to a much lesser extent 'sacrificing' a little purity for getting the same constructs as Imperative languages.

That said, I'm an absolute beginner in both languages so take my views with more than a pinchful of salt, they are subject to change as I get to know both the languages better.