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> if you wanted to pick a programming language based purely on expressive shininess, you'd write in OCaml.

Oh no you wouldn't. OCaml has at least one pretty serious problem in common with Go, only it's worse because even the basic math operators are functions. Therefore, you x + y to add integers, but x +. y to add floats, and there's no way around that because lol no generics.




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