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Because people who know other programming languages, but not ML, might want to read your code, and it's nice if it looks familiar to them.
by pcwalton 7y ago
Because people who know other programming languages, but not ML, might want to read your code, and it's nice if it looks familiar to them.
- pjmlp 7y agoThat is how languages like Go get designed, pour souls not able to spend some time learning.
- pcwalton 7y agoI wish Go had been a reskin of OCaml.
- terminaljunkid 7y agoThat is nowhere near their goals. Maybe if Go didn't start as a hobby project inside Google, then they /might/ even have seen some opportunity in Ocaml / Standard ML, but now that Go exists, and has a quite good toolchain, the incentive is low. Go and its foundations are radically different from a FP language like OCaml though.