John Goerzen wrote:
> My experience has been that OCaml is a lot more verbose than Perl.  For
> instance, to output an integer to a file, I'd have to do:
> 
> fprintf fd "%d\n" theint;

vs.

> print FD "$theint\n";

Wow!  That's 4 extra characters!

I've ported several thousand-line perl scripts to OCaml.  My experience 
is that the resulting scripts are about the same size as the original 
scripts.  They're just infinitely easier to maintain.

There is a lot of syntactic sugar in perl (especially for i/o) that 
makes simple programs very small.  As the program grows more complex, 
the benefits are fewer.

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