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I find it curious how you treat F# a separate language, but in the "primary programming languages" question OCaml and SML are considered the same language (list

by leovonl 11y ago

I find it curious how you treat F# a separate language, but in the "primary programming languages" question OCaml and SML are considered the same language (listed as "OCaml/SML"). IMHO, if you don't make a distinction between OCaml and SML languages, you should definitely not make a distiction between OCaml and F#. I have a good experience with OCaml, and judging by most F# code I saw it seems F# and OCaml are much more similar than OCaml and SML. Here you can see some examples comparing ML variants, which also illustrates my point a little further: http://hyperpolyglot.org/ml http://hyperpolyglot.org/ml

ak0s 11y ago
Surprisingly (actually not) lack of functors makes the language completely different.
- leovonl 11y ago
  Indeed, I agree with you. Object-orientation support on OCaml also sets it far apart from SML, for instance. Which can lead to a lengthy discussion, but that's beside the point. This reasoning, however, is exactly my point: depending on where emphasis is placed, they can be argued to be similar or completely different languages.