[ocaml-biz] adjectives about OCaml

[Brandon J. Van Every]

William D. Neumann wrote:
> Alexander Petrov wrote:
> >
> > If I had to pick one word to describe Ocaml, I'd choose Cynical.
>
> Hmmmm... I'm guessing cynical isn't quite the word your
> looking for here.
> Take a look why at <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cynical>.

I disagree.  I think Alexander chose his word correctly.  In contrast,
Haskell is hopelessly optimistic that Functional Programming really can
do every job best.  Convolute through a monad, whatever the heck that
is.  No problemo!  Haskell is idealistic and pure, OCaml is cynical.


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