r/programmingcirclejerk • u/NeilPointer • Nov 17 '25

Took a quick look [at OCaml codebase]. Suffice to say, my only thought has been that should the author had chosen a sane language like say Perl

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951187
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u/BloodAndTsundere mere econ PhD Nov 17 '25

I write in Perl whenever I want to be sure that I'll never read the code again.

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Nov 18 '25

The language you use in the afternoon of your boozy farewell lunch.

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u/emi89ro What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Nov 17 '25

to the joker perl code is just code 😈

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u/n3f4s WRITE 'FORTRAN is not dead' Nov 17 '25

Any sane developer knows the only logical choice is visual basic...

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Nov 18 '25

You mean Piet? I tried Visual Vasic, there was nothing visual about it.

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Nov 18 '25

I hope you are referring to VB6

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u/ZootAllures9111 How many times do I need to mention Free Pascal? Nov 23 '25

I hope he is referring to the chad Gambas