> C has all these different kinds of control flow and all these built-in operators, whereas everything you would want to do in OCaml is just plain old functions

> C has all these different kinds of control flow and all these built-in operators, whereas everything you would want to do in OCaml is just plain old functions and expressions. OCaml does have for and while loops, to be fair, although they don't support break or continue (you can simulate break by throwing in the loop body).