It's not a tactic. The story was that at one point the tech person in charge wanted to use ocaml because he liked it. The project was a success and there was never any reason to change it.
I'm sure everyone here is familiar with these two phenomena of the corporate world:
A) techie pushes tool not because it's useful or necessary but because he wants to learn the tool
B) something that started as happenstance ends up as a defining property of critical infrastructure.
I'm sure everyone here is familiar with these two phenomena of the corporate world:
A) techie pushes tool not because it's useful or necessary but because he wants to learn the tool
B) something that started as happenstance ends up as a defining property of critical infrastructure.