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"first time we've seen" Maybe they haven't been looking around - cough Clojure cough

• rbanffy 16y ago
  Parent mentioned Lisp Machines. They had a full IDE (well before the acronym) based on a functional language. They predate F# by a couple decades.
  • hga 16y ago
    Well, really multi-paradigm. Using it functionally was certainly an option, but there was also progn, loop, etc. the imperative types.
    • mbrubeck 16y ago
      F#, like OCaml, is also multi-paradigm. Maybe not as much as Common Lisp, but it does have language-level support for OOP and imperative programming. It's not a purely functional language like Haskell.
• Zak 16y ago
  F# appears to have been started in 2002. Scala was in 2003 and Clojure around 2005 with the first public release in... 2007? This announcement isn't about the release of F#, but its productization.