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I don't use too much Windows and Mono sucks from all my previous attempts at using it so that kind of kills F# from what I hear. I tried OCaml (many) years ago
by jnordwick 10y ago
I don't use too much Windows and Mono sucks from all my previous attempts at using it so that kind of kills F# from what I hear.
I tried OCaml (many) years ago, but it always seemed like a kitchen sink research language.
I like well designed languages. Ones with purpose when they start out. Ones I can see a path for. Languages of accretions (Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc) don't interests me as much unless they are languages of production value (Java). Java start off as a language of purpose (Write-One Run-Anywhere) but soon became a language of accretion. Nobody cares about WORA anymore, server side Java is where it is at now.
Maybe I'll just go back to my little corner of APL called KDB+/Q/K[1][2][3] and wait for a language that really piques my interest.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_Kx_Systems) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_K...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
- weavie 10y agoWhat about Standard ML? [http://www.smlnj.org/sml.html http://www.smlnj.org/sml.html] Much simpler than Scala, OCaml etc.. Many would say much better designed. It is the god father of many languages. There are several very good compilers available. [http://www.smlnj.org/ http://www.smlnj.org/] [http://mosml.org/ http://mosml.org/] [http://mlton.org/ http://mlton.org/]
- di4na 10y agoElixir and Erlang were built with a purpose. OCaml kitchen sink is due to use in prod btw. Like Erlang, it is a language that evolved with industry needs more than due to "research"