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Re:Why We Use OCaml by TylerE on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @05:00PM (#8044542)
Haskell tries to be exceedingly (some might argue excessivly) clever. OCaml strives to be pragmatic and predictable.
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Re:Why We Use OCaml by codygman on Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:25AM (#8046175)
Do you have any specific examples? I ask as someone that has landed on the Haskell boat but still keeps an eye/ear on the Ocaml one ;)
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Re:Why We Use OCaml by TylerE on Thursday July 17, 2014 @09:51AM (#8047483)
Very small and seemingly innocent changes in a Haskell program can vastly change the runtime characteristics, especially if they introduce a space leak or alter the compiler's strictness analysis.

That isn't a factor at all in OCaml - in fact the compiler is fairly "dumb".

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