I learned Lisp/Scheme many years ago and am learning OCaml now (and loving it). I guess you could be uncharitable and say that Scheme is OCaml without types, e

I learned Lisp/Scheme many years ago and am learning OCaml now (and loving it). I guess you could be uncharitable and say that Scheme is OCaml without types, etc. That seems inaccurate though; I will have to think about that :) But one important thing is that Lisp is its own meta language. With OCaml there are changing and competing meta languages as far as I understand (camlp4, MetaOCaml). The simplicity of the language and meta-language being the same leads to a totally different style of programming.