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Here's a mail from Don Syme, F# creator, to the OCaml mailing list telling them how much influence they had on him and the entire .NET platform: http://caml.inr

• jasim 8y ago
  This was good to read! "FWIW if you're interested I'd also like to mention the huge impact OCaml had on the design of .NET generics and C# 2.0, which I've never properly described on this list. It was seeing and experiencing polymorphic programming in OCaml and SML that made us persevere with the long and torturous process of convincing Microsoft that they should add such an "experimental and academic" feature as generics to their flagship runtime and languages. Of course we were in reality just making 1970s ideas work in practice, but at least now even Visual Basic has generics."
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    had no idea they resisted Generics.. I thought Java 5 was the main reason C# got them.
    • yawaramin 8y ago
      I think the one thing we can take away from the history of every mainstream language is they will all fight tooth-and-nail against generics because they are 'too complex', before coming up with some 'innovative approach to generics'.
• philonoist 8y ago
  I apologize for not being clear. Which one expresses functional paradigm more?
  • Paradigma11 8y ago
    OCaml since it has functors.