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The previous posts may have given the impression that I’m learning various languages for the sake of higher academic enlightenment. Actually the core reason is much simpler: I’ve got some performance intensive code to write, python just didn’t cut it, and in the computer language shootout benchmarks OCaml consistently kicks the collective butts of all […]

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Currying

I’ve been playing around with the ML language recently, using the OCaml implementation.
Picking up ML illustrates to me why it’s useful to learn a number of different languages in order to experience various styles of programming - it’s sometimes not enough that a language merely ’supports’ a particular style; sometimes the language must live that […]

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