> A straight forward, easy to read, performant C++ solution took me 10 minutes; an ugly unidiomatic OCaml version took me 30 minutes; and a beautiful idiomatic

> A straight forward, easy to read, performant C++ solution took me 10 minutes; an ugly unidiomatic OCaml version took me 30 minutes; and a beautiful idiomatic OCaml version using recursion that still no non-OCaml programmer could ever read took me something like an hour... Replace C++ with English and OCaml with Japanese or Estonian and you'll get the idea. OCaml is a vastly different language from what C++ is. Switching to OCaml from C++ is not at all like switching to Go or Java. If you switched to OCaml from SML or Haskell, you would write a completely different opinion. Paradigm shift takes huge mental effort, that's something you have to deal with, unless you want to confine yourself into the comfy world of familiar languages.