I am willing to concede that OCaml is a small language (Having not used it, I dont have any evidence for or against). As for C, I was looking at small purely f

I am willing to concede that OCaml is a small language (Having not used it, I dont have any evidence for or against). As for C, I was looking at small purely from the views of a new comer who is using a book to come upto speed with a language. You can write the programs from c books as is in a simple text editor and just compile / run them. C Books dont spend a huge amount of focus on arbitrary textual macros so in practice you do not run into macros as a newcomer.