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I keep forgetting to drink water and HOLY HECK IT'S BEEN HALF AN HOUR SINCE I POSTED THAT WTF

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@Efi @Felthry I do have it, because I get the full unicode set in everything EXCEPT web browsers

@Efi @Felthry I don't think I have a character map in my OS, so I'll have to use ~the interwebs~

unfortunately my computer only supports some of those in browser because for some reason unicode in the browser isn't working?

@Felthry I couldn't use * because I was already using * for dot points

although I could have used · for dot points, now that I think about it

@Efi because most of my computer science experience at university is getting told off for trying things new, or being scoffed at for suggesting that we shouldn't keep using a language from half a century ago

thoughts on OCaml so far [3/3] (a footnote 

^ of course, these Computer Bros who complain about functional programming are also the kind of people who refuse to learn anything and think they're always correct, so this doesn't actually solve any of their problems

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thoughts on OCaml so far [2/3] 

bad stuff:
* it's so ugly... not as ugly as C, but there's still too much punctuation marks
* the book I'm reading (real world ocaml) starts with a guided tour, which covers the basics of the entire language - if I wasn't used to functional programming, this would have put me off completely
* I want to use this language to do a whole bunch of stuff, but I'm scared people will say I can't because it's not as well known as other languages

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thoughts on OCaml so far [1/3] 

good stuff:
* this is a good functional language
* it's also a good "compromise" language - every Computer Bro who has whinged to me "X is why functional programming isn't good enough" would find those problems solved with this language^
* being able to easily switch between functional and imperative and OO inside the same program is great
* named function arguments is pretty cool, and makes it easier to read other people's code

@woozle oh yeah I'm expecting this to be "enough money to maybe pay for my transport into uni"

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