D, Parasail, Pascal, and Rust vs The Steelman

bauss jj_1337 at live.dk
Thu Mar 22 19:21:08 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 22 March 2018 at 14:49:17 UTC, Ali wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 March 2018 at 11:16:37 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 12:52:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> An article comparing the above languages as per the DoD 
>>> language requirements [0].
>>>
>>> http://jedbarber.id.au/steelman.html
>>>
>>> [0] - 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelman_language_requirements
>>
>>> Rust has by far the most support for the functional 
>>> programming paradigm.
>>
>> I wonder how they concluded that.
>>
>> Atila
>
> While I dont know Rust, it didnt come to me to question this 
> claim knowing that Rust is generally advertised as being 
> influenced by OCaml, and knowing that there is a long history 
> between Rust and OCaml

The first Rust compiler was in fact written in OCaml if I 
remember correct. You can even find it in the history of the 
github repository.


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