[Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs OCaml

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at digitaldistribution.com> writes:

> Marcin,
>
> Are you sure that OCaml is similar to Haskell? At first glance, it
> doesn't even look functional. It looks like an imperative language.

It's not purely functional, but it supports algebraic types and
first-class functions, uses similar conventions in the library
(immutable Lisp-style lists, tuples, currying), has a similar type
system to Haskell's one (or rather the other way around: ML invented
it), has a similar syntax (function application as juxtaposition,
pattern matching, one namespace for values which include functions),
neither language supports implicit type conversions nor RTTI.

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