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Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning with Laurent Mazare

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

OCaml and Python - What You Need to Know About Types

OCaml's type system is quite lightweight. It doesn't require lots of type annotations. And it's flexible, so you don't have to bend your program too far out of shape to make it fit in and get the benefits of types. The nice thing about dynamically typed languages is that you get to skip that negotiation step entirely. If your program works in the particular context on the data that you happen to be running on, then you don’t have to think about how it works in a more general context.

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