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Jon Harrop

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Aug 2, 2007, 5:16:54 PM8/2/07
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Regarding the subjective rejection of submissions on the computer language
shootout, I just stumbled across this little gem in the comments of the
binary-trees implementation in OCaml:

* De-optimized by Isaac Gouy

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/benchmark.php?test=binarytrees&lang=ocaml&id=0

ROTFL. :-)

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ajk

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Aug 3, 2007, 10:05:05 AM8/3/07
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On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:16:54 +0100, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com>
wrote:

>
>Regarding the subjective rejection of submissions on the computer language
>shootout, I just stumbled across this little gem in the comments of the
>binary-trees implementation in OCaml:
>
> * De-optimized by Isaac Gouy
>
>http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/benchmark.php?test=binarytrees&lang=ocaml&id=0
>
>ROTFL. :-)

oh i remember the LET command...

Live and LET live all programming languages.. how strange they may be

Chris Dollin

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Aug 3, 2007, 10:26:39 AM8/3/07
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ajk wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:16:54 +0100, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Regarding the subjective rejection of submissions on the computer language
>>shootout, I just stumbled across this little gem in the comments of the
>>binary-trees implementation in OCaml:
>>
>> * De-optimized by Isaac Gouy
>>
>>http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/benchmark.php?test=binarytrees&lang=ocaml&id=0
>>
>>ROTFL. :-)
>
> oh i remember the LET command...

OCaml's `let` isn't a command, it's a declaration.

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Isaac Gouy

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Aug 3, 2007, 10:48:00 AM8/3/07
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On Aug 2, 2:16 pm, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> Regarding the subjective rejection of submissions on the computer languageshootout, I just stumbled across this little gem in the comments of the

> binary-trees implementation in OCaml:
>
> * De-optimized by Isaac Gouy
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/benchmark.php?test=binarytr...
>
> ROTFL. :-)

Laughter is very healthy, I'm pleased that you enjoyed the joke.

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