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What's your perfect language? I'm genuinely interested.

• fleitz 15y ago
  My fav language is F# (preferred over OCaml because of VS and the #light syntax), but for webdev I usually use ruby/RoR because of the functionality available through gems. Making facebook/twitter integration work on ASP.NET MVC was more work than it should be last time I tried, and I hate all the hoops you have to jump through to make jQuery / json work with ASP.NET. Mostly I like F# because of the pipe and composition operators, inferred typing, records, active patterns, and a very succinct way of defining classes. Pipe Operator: Seq.init 100 (fun x -> x*2) |> Seq.reduce (+) Creates a sequence of numbers from 1 to 100 multiplies them by two and then adds together. Composition operator: let add x y = x+y let mul x y = x*y let addFiveMultiplyBy20 = add 5 >> mul 20 Define a class type User(firstName,lastName,email) = property x.Name.get = x.firstName + x.lastName I'm a little rusty on the class syntax so it might be off. Btw, the class that that would create would be fully generic with a requirement that the class of firstName and lastName have the (+) operator defined. So you could use the code: let user1 = new User("Foo","Bar","foo@bar.com") let user2 = new User(42,24,new EmailAddress("foo@bar.com")) As well you could do this: let (+) (x:string) (y:int) = x + y.ToString(); let (+) (x:int) (y:string) = x.ToString() + y; let user3 = new User(42,"Bar","foo@bar.com");