Porting some code from OCaml to Scheme, the amount of boilerplate that goes away is staggering. Of course, I am also losing a whole lot of safety and refactoring help. But this sure makes the cost visible.
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10. OCaml modules lack good recursion or fixpoints and require a whole lot of scaffolding. OCaml objects are limited and unwieldy and don't compose well with modules. I can do so much more in Gerbil Scheme with either its builtin objects or my own Prototypes.
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11. Of course, typed functional programmers like to boast at how good typed fp is at writing compilers and making everything composable, but their metaprogramming tools utterly suck and are completely non-composable. Liars, hypocrites or just morons?
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