it's strict (so not as weird as lazy haskell), statically typed (with inference, so little extra typing) and reasonably fast. so it's faster than ruby, safer t

it's strict (so not as weird as lazy haskell), statically typed (with inference, so little extra typing) and reasonably fast. so it's faster than ruby, safer than c, has more compile-time checking than erlang or javascript. it's a functional language, but it supports side-effects and classes. it used to be pretty much unique. it's closely related to F#. more generally, it's a rather nice, general programming language. but it's not so popular, so doesn't have the range of libraries available to, say, python or java. but it does have all these: http://ocaml-batteries-team.github.io/batteries-included/hdoc/ http://ocaml-batteries-team.github.io/batteries-included/hdo... maybe i'm not answering the question exactly enough, but the problem is it really is a pretty nice, general language you could use for a lot of tasks. so nothing obviously jumps out to me as being "the [one] kind of task for ocaml".