Thomas Leonard

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Python to OCaml: Retrospective

2014235 points126 commentscited by 18Software Engineering details

In 2013, I spent 6 months converting 0install's 29,215 lines of Python to OCaml (learning OCaml along the way). In this post, I'll describe the …

OCaml: what you gain

2014198 points118 commentscited by 9Software Engineering details

Way back in June, in Replacing Python: second round, I wrote: The big surprise for me in these tests was how little you lose going from Python to …

Replacing Python

2013173 points139 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

In the first post, I took a brief look at the programming languages ATS, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, Python and Rust to try to decide which would be the …