9. The OCaml ecosystem is a disaster zone with no solution in sight except maybe embrace JaneSt as your savior, if you can tolerate their style. Gerbil Scheme has a smaller community, but people *talk to each other*, synchronize, and offer all the essentials in one place.
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21. The best infix operator is |>, that allows you to, albeit locally, replace the demonic right-to-left evaluation (contravariant with how types are rightfully written) with god-given left-to-right evaluation. It also makes debugging nice: just pipe into a printing identity.
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21b. The above is a point where OCaml sucks a tiny bit less than Lisp, that has the same wrong, prefix, polish notation by default, but lacks a syntactically cheap way to right the syntax and evaluation order together.
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I'm kind of going to the camp that (pure) CT leads to madness in programming. Using CT in programming as math is wonderful. But when the system model human behavior CT ends up finding more order and structure than actually exist.
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