[Oberon] Functional languages

[Soren Renner]

I do know about the implementation of Scheme in Oberon. The Vinci graphics package is based on it. I don't think of Scheme as a functional language. It certainly isn't much like the ML languages. That aside, the Scheme interpreter is just that: an interpreter, using boxed types. It isn't compiled to native code, doesn't do type inference, and so on. I admit that I haven't programmed in Ocaml [yet], and that some of the arguments in its favor are valid if the choice is between Ocaml and C or C++, but lose force when comparing Ocaml and Oberon. Nevertheless I'd like to have an ML-style language integrated with Oberon. But it might be a while before I have the courage to try to do it myself.

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