Ocaml

OCaml and the ML Lineage: What Survived, What Broke, and Why It Still Matters

The ML family is one of the most influential yet consistently misunderstood lineages in programming language history. OCaml stands at the center of this tradition as a rare example of a language that preserved conceptual clarity while evolving toward real world practicality. Many modern languages borrow from ML without acknowledging the source. Others attempt reinvention and rediscover solutions ML had decades earlier.