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I wish I could say the choice of OCaml among all available functional languages was objective, rational and well-deserved... the fundamental reason is that my k

I wish I could say the choice of OCaml among all available functional languages was objective, rational and well-deserved... the fundamental reason is that my knowledge of OCaml is orders of magnitude greater than my knowledge of Haskell, F# or Erlang (three languages I would have considered using as well). I do find OCaml more adapted to the way I think, but the way I think probably ended up the way it is because I have been using OCaml a lot. I can do a fairly adequate analysis of OCaml-versus-PHP or OCaml-versus-C# because I'm familiar with both sides of the equation, but I wouldn't be able to do an honest comparison of OCaml and Haskell.

gtani 16y ago
these ask reddit's are pretty good. Good Lang A vs B comp's are very rare. http://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/fmpl8/i_have_yet_to_learn_a_functional_programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/fmpl8/i_have_yet_to_l... http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/fmp66/i_have_yet_to_learn_a_functional_programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/fmp66/i_have_yet_to... and this guy's universe of FP languages: http://www.slideshare.net/brweber2/functional-concepts-for-oop-developers-presentation http://www.slideshare.net/brweber2/functional-concepts-for-o... slide 12: haskell, clean, F#, ML/ocaml, lisp, scheme, scala, clojure, erlang, XSLT
VMG 16y ago
Chosing one language over the other because you know it better is rational and well-deserved.