OCaml is 25
The history of programming languages is one of my personal interest fields, and I find it fascinating how, 25 years on, many of the most popular languages are still slowly encorporating core features of functional languages like OCaml: records, enumerated (sum or variant) types, pattern matching and destructuring, true tail calls, type inference.To be clear, I’m in favor of these changes, and I don’t denigrate any existing language for not having them, I just still marvel seeing HN headlines like “Python to get match statement”, “Record Types in Java”, “Tail Call support in Rust” and appreciate all the more the things OCaml (and before it, ML) have gotten right for so long.