what is your excuse for not using OCAML?

it's blazing fast. strict (not like the other shit), french.

it supports:
  functional style (yay)
  imperative programing (because mutation is essential)
  and a sane OOP (seriously is one sane OOP, is not ambitious is just useful)

pattern matching is great. i would love to see a OS with it's entire userland written in this.

but i don't why haven't catch on?, what is your excuse Prog

/pork/ will think that I'm trolling, but I'm not, or maybe I am without knowing it, but I don't really care.

The benchmark for a language ought to be the framerate you get in a first-person shooter with a given scene, screen resolution, graphics hardware, etc...  And that list of "givens" should be constantly updated to be roughly competitive with the actual first-person shooters released in the previous 12 months.

All of /prog/'s favorite toy languages would come in somewhere around six orders of magnitude slower than C++, finally allowing for a realistic discussion of programming languages.  And >>1 would have the grand mystery of why OCaml hasn't taken the world by storm solved.