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andrewstuart on Feb 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why OCaml, why now? (2014)

I wanted to like OCaml, mainly for working with Unikernels. When I looked at the syntax it just looked very arcane, which was discouraging.

ignoramous on Feb 14, 2015 | [–]

Might come handy in case you want help yourself get over the seemingly cryptic syntax: http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages/

ufo on Feb 14, 2015 | [–]

The syntax is certainly very wonky but you get used to it. Installing merlin (vim / emacs plugin) helps a lot too.

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