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[Caml-list] syntax foo

james woodyatt
- Jérôme Marant
  - Brian Rogoff
    - Markus Mottl
      - Lauri Alanko
        
        Markus Mottl
        
        Alexander V. Voinov
      - Brian Rogoff
    - David Brown
    - Alexander V. Voinov

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From:	David Brown <caml-list@d...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] syntax foo

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:30:47PM +0000, Brian Rogoff wrote:

> Caml syntax is *not* why people like Caml. I'd go as far as to say that
> lots of people adopt it in spite of its flawed (though not awful, like
> Perl) syntax. To paraphrase American political soundbites, "It's the
> sematics, stupid!". (PS: No, I'm not calling you stupid.)

For myself, the Ocaml syntax is actually what won me over from SML.
Only later did I discover much of the other benefits of Ocaml.

Dave Brown
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