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vegabook on Aug 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: OCaml Compiler Hacking: how to add a primitive

Yes it seems to attract a high-end CS crowd - there's lots of graduate-level CS assumption going on in some of the tutorials. But one of the things I really appreciate is the REPL ("toplevel") which let's you hack around and mess with examples in an interactive way. So good for a compiled language.

klibertp on Aug 6, 2015 [–]

Much better in this regard than Haskell, though. Being impure and eager makes the most die-hard academics go for Haskell instead.

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