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Why I love OCaml and what I do with it
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoSome things that I thought were interesting: He prefers OCaml to Haskell because of Haskell's mental overhead. I think he nailed the problem a lot of people have with Haskell. He likes the ability to mutate when he wants/needs to. He wants to be functional, but not forced to be purely functional. I'm sure the Haskell types (pun intended) will have counter-arguments to these points, but Edgar's position seemed pretty good to me...
- shepardrtc 11y agoAnother good choice is F#. I started off with Haskell, but there was definitely a steep learning curve, so I eventually found my way over to Erlang. Erlang's great, but its not for everythng. Now I'm working with F#, which is pragmatic, and has the support of .Net libraries.