I would say Ocaml code is much easier to understand as a beginner than Haskell. Even with context I've never been able to just look at some production haskell and get the gist quickly. Ocaml takes work, but I at the very least have an idea of what's going on after giving a chunk of code a once-over.

Here's an example: http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/OCamlLangImpl1.html