[ocaml-biz] adjectives about OCaml

[Brian Hurt]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Alexander Petrov wrote:

> 
> If I had to pick one word to describe Ocaml, I'd choose Cynical.
> 
> For me, Ocaml is language that allows do anything any way. You may use
> functional style, you may use imperative style, you may use pure
> declarative style and cynically mix it. Byte-code, native code,
> ocamltop - use any or mix. And time-traveling debugging is most cynical
> feature of all. If you don't like syntax - change it totally or
> partially. If you don't like ocaml at all, but like that neat
> ocamrun.dll - take it and build MoscowML compiler on top of it.
> 
> So, Ocaml is a perfect tool for cynical programming.

I think you mean practical or pragmatic.  Cynical is stuff like "all 
politicials are crooks" or "we're all going to die".  Cynical has negative 
connotations.

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