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It's not clear to me why you'd choose OCaml over Haskell. I understand that OCaml isn't lazily evaluated like Haskell and has a simpler to understand compiler w

It's not clear to me why you'd choose OCaml over Haskell. I understand that OCaml isn't lazily evaluated like Haskell and has a simpler to understand compiler which gives a better understanding how the code will perform at runtime. But why as someone new why would I choose OCaml over Haskell? From my perspective it seems like there is more activity and research going on in Haskell.

zerr 12y ago
As I'm aware, finance industry now prefers F#. Regarding Haskell - one of its biggest user (Standard Chartered I think) uses in-house dialect of it, miu, which is strict. Basically, it just syntactically resembles Haskell... i.e. you can't just use some random Haskell library with it.
- thinkpad20 12y ago
  Where did you hear about this? Googling around for "miu", "miu haskell", "miu haskell standard chartered", "miu haskell standard chartered strict", etc hasn't given me anything.
  - lpw25 12y ago
    It's "mu" not "miu". I think they gave a talk on it at CUFP one year.
mjambon 12y ago
Pure Haskell is slow, that is why.
- dons 12y ago
  [citation needed]
andreypopp 12y ago
> I understand that OCaml isn't lazily evaluated like Haskell and has a simpler to understand compiler which gives a better understanding how the code will perform at runtime. But why as someone new why would I choose OCaml over Haskell? Isn't that enough to choose OCaml over Haskell?
- sanityinc 12y ago
  Why would that be enough on its own? If that alone is sufficient, he should choose C over both OCaml and Haskell.
- jstoja 12y ago
  Haskell comes with a very big community, and a lot of ways to start with the languages. I think about the http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouahaskell.com/ and others. Real World OCaml is that, without totally being it. The authors wrote it with the idea in mind that only people with a good background about functionnal world can read it. I'd add that lazyness can be a good thing and that the type-system of Haskell is better than the OCaml one.

zerr 12y ago

As I'm aware, finance industry now prefers F#. Regarding Haskell - one of its biggest user (Standard Chartered I think) uses in-house dialect of it, miu, which is strict. Basically, it just syntactically resembles Haskell... i.e. you can't just use some random Haskell library with it.

thinkpad20 12y ago
Where did you hear about this? Googling around for "miu", "miu haskell", "miu haskell standard chartered", "miu haskell standard chartered strict", etc hasn't given me anything.
- lpw25 12y ago
  It's "mu" not "miu". I think they gave a talk on it at CUFP one year.

mjambon 12y ago

Pure Haskell is slow, that is why.

dons 12y ago
[citation needed]

andreypopp 12y ago

> I understand that OCaml isn't lazily evaluated like Haskell and has a simpler to understand compiler which gives a better understanding how the code will perform at runtime. But why as someone new why would I choose OCaml over Haskell? Isn't that enough to choose OCaml over Haskell?

sanityinc 12y ago
Why would that be enough on its own? If that alone is sufficient, he should choose C over both OCaml and Haskell.
jstoja 12y ago
Haskell comes with a very big community, and a lot of ways to start with the languages. I think about the http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouahaskell.com/ and others. Real World OCaml is that, without totally being it. The authors wrote it with the idea in mind that only people with a good background about functionnal world can read it. I'd add that lazyness can be a good thing and that the type-system of Haskell is better than the OCaml one.