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A power and persuasive essay on the essential merits of functional languages. Erlang is ugly Haskell is beautiful, like Karate OCaml is impenetrably unexciti
by gar1t 15y ago
A power and persuasive essay on the essential merits of functional languages.
Erlang is ugly
Haskell is beautiful, like Karate
OCaml is impenetrably unexciting
F# is polished. And mainstream
Scala is a tour de force of concepts. Tiobe Top 20
- evangineer 15y agoI wonder if the author would feel the same way about OCaml if he had come across it before Scala. I suspect not somehow.
- fhars 15y agoI came to scala because it is in fact an acceptable ocaml that runs on the JVM.
- evangineer 15y agoKind of my point. I think he's meh on Ocaml because Scala has the same features & runs on the JVM, seeing it after using Scala wouldn't be very exciting. However Ocaml was around years before Scala.
- mb21 15y agoscala is in the 50-100 range now according to http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
- gaius 15y agoIt's an interesting analogy. Whenever Karate fighters enter MMA contests, they get their arses handed to them by BJJ fighters - the beauty of their art doesn't translate into effectiveness in competition.
- ubojan 15y agoYes it does. It's hard to be a successful MMA fighter relying on just one martial art. Just look at Machida how he beautifully incorporates karate in MMA game.