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F# is Microsoft's invented here version of Java
by ape4 7y ago
F# is Microsoft's invented here version of Java
- munchbunny 7y agoI thought C# was Microsoft's NIH version of Java?
- kerng 7y agoTo be fair Microsoft wanted to adopt Java, and with J++ they added Windows specific base libraries and make it work with COM. One could still compile ordinary Java back then also with J++. Although they weren't allowed to do that if I remember right, so they basically had to create C# - and C# turned out to be fantastic in my opinion.
- moogly 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp
- loeg 7y agoYou mean C#? F# is an ML family language on the CLR. > James Gosling, who created the Java programming language in 1994, and Bill Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, the originator of Java, called C# an "imitation" of Java; Gosling further said that "[C# is] sort of Java with reliability, productivity and security deleted." (Wikipedia)