It is a joy when you get used to it, but it's not as immediately accessible as Python. As I recall, my first hour or so with OCaml was full of frustrating syntax errors. Keep going though, it's worth it!

One thing I don't think the tutorial mentions, but which helps a lot, is turning on all warnings ("-w A"). The tutorial also fails to mention ocamlbuild, so you start by compiling things manually, which makes everything harder than it should be.