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what is the advantage of ocaml over c?

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From: "Yiming Zhang" <sdiris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:47:38 +0100
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Hi all,

In the Tuesday NetOS group meeting (2 weeks ? ago when most mirage people not in the Lab), almost all questions are about what is the real advantage of OCaml over C/C++ for system programming. Can we use as-simple-as-possible examples to explain what is the meaning and advantage of “type safe”, “functional programming”, “no side-effects” in OCaml? That is really a problem in my mind all the time!

Cheers,

Yiming

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