i think ML has changed the way i look at programming more than anything else. pattern matching over algebraic datatypes is a very powerful way to think about mo

i think ML has changed the way i look at programming more than anything else. pattern matching over algebraic datatypes is a very powerful way to think about modelling something as code even if your language doesn't support either feature. (to paraphrase ashley yakeley, "every sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments")