On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Tom Hawkins wrote:

> OCaml and Haskell programmers have an expression: "Once it compiles, it
> usually just works!"

Well, at least not from my experience. This may be true as long as you do 
algorithmically un-interesting things, but in practice, for code that uses 
more involved bookkeeping, one often still has to do quite extensive 
debugging.

Besides this, I think that HDCaml is a quite neat approach.

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