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The Graphics module is a core Ocaml library that is always available. In order to use it, it must be linked on the command line, similar to many other languages. Installing an unrelated OpenGL binding didn't magically make "ocaml o.ml" work. Based on this and the obvious trolling of your final paragraph, I'm hesitant to believe anything you said is true.

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Seriously. You are so biased that it is easier for you to believe that other people are downright lying than to accept inconvenient truth. I was running it in the interpreted mode. Isn't that how one is supposed to run tutorials code? And obviously I've added the following:

  #load "graphics.cma";;

into the file first. And forgot about it, when writing the post. So no magic here. "Beautiful" syntax by the way.

And no, I wasn't trolling. I just wanted to see what that recursion would do. The code is not exactly crystal clear there, with names like start_x and such. But it really did not work. And the syntax is really ugly. And you can believe what you like.

Dont judge syntax when you are new to a language. Few syntaxes have the tendency to never grow on you, but it is surprising how most do, even when your first impressions were pretty bad. Remarkable abilities of the human brain !

Does that mean that K syntax could grow on me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)

For this old C programmer, Python proved to have the most friendly syntax.

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