[ocaml-biz] adjectives about OCaml

[Blair Zajac]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> 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.

I think cynical has exactly the negative connotations that you wouldn't 
want with associated with a language, especially one we happen to like.

Blair

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