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Ocaml (which will turn 21 this year).

It really hits a sweet spot for me:

- fast executables

- fast compile times

- very expressive

- good standard library in 'Core'

- a REPL so you can easily play around with code you have just written

- a type system that's really useful for catching bugs

- imperative programming is relatively easy

I find myself becoming more and more productive. I will have to see if writing a little server for JSON web API sitting behind nginx is feasible - currently using ruby for that.




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