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ML language != functional programming. There is more out there than Haskell. The article doesn't even mention OCaml, the second most popular ML-derived languag
by AlexanderDhoore 4y ago
ML language != functional programming. There is more out there than Haskell.
The article doesn't even mention OCaml, the second most popular ML-derived language on Github. Makes me suspect the article is not very well researched.
- cosmic_quanta 4y agoWhile the title doesn't specify this, the article is about pure functional programming. I don't think OCaml fits this bill exactly.
- xjm 4y agoIt doesn't fit "pure", but it solves the same problems the article is talking about, as other functional programming languages do. In fact the article is excluding most functional languages by saying "pure", and then goes on with "Of the top dozen functional-programming languages, Haskell is by far the most popular" under the graph, which is wrong because it's missing "pure", a feature that is _not_ required to solve the problems that are being talked about. So I agree on the initial point "Makes me suspect the article is not very well researched."
- tankorsmash 4y agoWhich part of Haskell is impure?