Re:OCaml 4.08
by neilv on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:32PM
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Agreed, OCaml has looked good for a long time.
And I have a similar feeling of sadness that Racket (or one of the other Scheme variants) isn't used more.
I've wondered whether one of the barriers is still that students' only exposure to these is usually using it in school for some contrived homework assignments, and dismissing the tools for "real work" before they've tried applying them. (And at least some schools are emphasizing having students ready for internship/interview with popular languages now, so innovative languages can get even less attention.)
And I have a similar feeling of sadness that Racket (or one of the other Scheme variants) isn't used more.
I've wondered whether one of the barriers is still that students' only exposure to these is usually using it in school for some contrived homework assignments, and dismissing the tools for "real work" before they've tried applying them. (And at least some schools are emphasizing having students ready for internship/interview with popular languages now, so innovative languages can get even less attention.)