Interestingly we used OCaml in the first semester (by the professor's choice) in late 2003, and I hated it and failed the course. A year later I retook the cour

Interestingly we used OCaml in the first semester (by the professor's choice) in late 2003, and I hated it and failed the course. A year later I retook the course and as it was some other professor's turn it was SML, which I kinda liked. I did revisit OCaml more than 10 years later and actually enjoyed it, so maybe it was a bit of "wrong place, wrong time" but as I heard from some users it should have evolved quite a bit in those 10 years. (I am 95% sure it was not functional programming per se, but I never figured out what exactly was the culprit, I guess a dose of "I know how to code" was involved).