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It’s a fair question. You have picked up this book, so I assume that you are (at a minimum) interested in Objective Caml (OCaml). That interest is enough for some to cover the “why” question. If you write programs to make a living, perhaps the glib, navel-gazing answer is not what you were looking for.
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© 2006 Joshua B. Smith
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(2006). Why Objective Caml (OCaml)?. In: Practical OCaml. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0244-8_1
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