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		yawaramin on Aug 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OCaml at Bloomberg Given that many people have found FP languages with algebraic data types excellent for implementing compilers, I am willing to bet it was more of a team issue than a technology issue :-)

xupybd on Aug 24, 2021 | [–]

> Then half the programers fled

It does sound like something was going on that went beyond the choice of languages.

frozenport on Aug 24, 2021 | [–]

Ends up being slow for no reason other than a fetishism for FP.

Take a look at LLVM. Its C++.

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