-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA384 On 04/22/2014 21:15, Christof Leng wrote:

I was very happy with Standard ML (non-object-oriented 'predecessor' of OCAML) for writing complex P2P systems and even user-land transport protocols.

Agreed. I use the Caml part of OCaml. :)

Functional programming and static typing helps to discover subtle bugs that go unnoticed in imperative languages (and I'm not talking about something as ridiculous as buffer overruns).

Unfortunately, Stevens requirement of familiarity still speaks against functional programming languages, even for something as popular (and watered-down) as Scala. It's very hard to find code contributors who know the language or are willing to learn it.

But if you have a chance to start from scratch, you should look at possible solutions and use a viable one. Especially the readability and maintainability of a programming language should be considered. Otherwise you end up with a piece of code which is not maintainable once the PhDs have graduated. You have to pay the technical debt at some point. And I'm not sure how to hand over a research project to 'the open source community'... Are there best practices/guidelines availble? I think the OCaml community is rather larger compared to other functional programming languages, and it is very helpful. Both the real world ocaml book, available online https://realworldocaml.org/, and their package management system OPAM, are awesome contributions over the last years to easily start with OCaml and to get more people involved. Cheers, Hannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCQAGBQJTVstHAAoJELyJZYjffCjuUqcQAKFUvtAfbLu2yU3EEkR5Mjsv N9f19Ao0tIvmU6PmQAEfrdXNhs1e19xFSseaLPEQibxWBbYXTzx+J0es+/H6a116 CcrZ8N51kM/aOydnRTk2NmoP1BYh9X+S3bQRLPu/lYipgYVyuV7ohzZMqmrguARu 15uWjqmvaDahYZhuu4tnfksggveL59pF/08UA5xd8wZ3I+XMiXB7JviN3Mii2rbk 8BjWFFXW66xQGSxg+nsIp+rGiX6r12gCNZZHJHSoQGcmbalGPVF+o2r7+j+D2ZcC n/tXVVgIy2TO+7mxp+ueX+OK5p+YDqOzFTPDKQhARVP+EjEqZXPRKY4YkgMno8ug 7CT4yCuV84gdrNfudOFKTOx4G0k/4OSZzPVn/g1i9vmqAUU8z6UUBr9tjSR1jZq6 iZqDBGkz34550DlPhxE3mwdFh/woBv2ExgrOvM3iSX/dtKBa7p/fCGNHX17dEIgW 0d1DKQatRjuIGIdAjowy8CuJ4rPceoqoObPutLYVw+PeMfSencjDmf9bmXgFI3jB WU6Jo+akCd/BlvABnV2qLnJXqbo3ixM0B7WbI+c5EyQaPapS5J4Im+b66EE9o57Y Ab5Vf7h0GLVovA+VFXbnNCjoiawQo8rKU276Lwid7i8ZByQhm7iX/obMPTQchyKU z5MCXzwWyXnFRt8MbI+G =N6Jn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----