On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Hezekiah M. Carty <hcarty@atmos.umd.edu> wrote:

ocamlscript is certainly a wonderful tool, for prototyping and
otherwise. It unfortunately doesn't help specifically with the "load
a large file and do something with it" case.

Right.

Also, I should mention that a high-performance toplevel, combined with new libraries like OCaml-R, would essentially make OCaml a competitor to Matlab and R. This would really expand OCaml's scope to an important area.