Name: Anonymous 2010-08-17 18:14
So I'm looking at OCaml, but I'm having some reservations.
First is the relationship with Haskell. They seem to share some of the same ideas, with Haskell being the more `modern' language, but OCaml being more pragmatic. Has Haskell mostly obsoleted OCaml, or do they occupy separate niches?
Then there's the general suitability. I'm not too taken with the syntax, it seems verbose, yet not particularly readable, and in fact rather confused and arbitrary. And the people who use it always seem to feel the need to point out that they used some fraction or another of the lines of code a corresponding program written in C did, which strikes me as a kind of insecurity.
Has anybody used OCaml in a situation where it shined? Is it good for anything but parsers?
First is the relationship with Haskell. They seem to share some of the same ideas, with Haskell being the more `modern' language, but OCaml being more pragmatic. Has Haskell mostly obsoleted OCaml, or do they occupy separate niches?
Then there's the general suitability. I'm not too taken with the syntax, it seems verbose, yet not particularly readable, and in fact rather confused and arbitrary. And the people who use it always seem to feel the need to point out that they used some fraction or another of the lines of code a corresponding program written in C did, which strikes me as a kind of insecurity.
Has anybody used OCaml in a situation where it shined? Is it good for anything but parsers?