Intro You know, since I accidentially discovered Functional Programming due to being a Security Analyst at a time (and realizing how shitty our software practices are to allow many severe vulnerabilities into production due to C’s nonexistent memory safety), I was a hard proponent, or a more fancy word they call us, an evangelist of FP (but that is a topic of its own). Of course, when I try to do that, I get a massive pushback from people:

Introduction So, you might have heard that there’s a language called OCaml, and that it is one of the affordable ways of getting into Functional Programming (the other one being F#, but that is a topic for another day). Pros of OCaml OCaml is a really good language. There’s a saying that being copied is one of the best compliments that artist can get. Apparently for the programming language it is the same.