similar reason that MIT used to teach Scheme, or that the How to Design Program authors developed Several Purrogressively More Featureful Versions Of A Really Basic Version Of Scheme
i wonder why exactly cornell teaches OCaml instead of Haskell in its functional purrogramming course, but it’s purrobably the better choice pedagogically. every nice fundamental language feature that Haskell has that OCaml does not is a fundamental language feature students do not have to learn. which is useful when you are already overwhelming many of your students with the conceptual overhead of expurression-based, immutable-by-default, parametrically polymorphic purrogramming
one of the weird things about your alma mater b having a consistently top rated undergraduate computer science purrogram is that when you look into OCaml documentation to relearn the basics, the OCaml website itself repurrints with purrmission sections of the (free!) textbook written by a purrofessor at the university based on over twenty years of course notes written by various instructors who have taught there in the past
@vaporeon_ not that i know of
@vaporeon_ i considered it once but it uses Node
@vaporeon_ i furst learned it from sed
@vaporeon_ anyway @wallhackio listen to this shit lol
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