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I'm learning SML for a college course right now. I'm pretty smittened, I gotta say. It seems strange to me, that it never took off.
by weatherlight 4y ago
I'm learning SML for a college course right now. I'm pretty smittened, I gotta say. It seems strange to me, that it never took off.
- projektfu 4y agoIt's probably because I'm a chickenhead but I couldn't get the signatures/modules/functors thing working properly and found Haskell a wonderfully easy alternative.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoI tried to take up Haskell some years after playing with SML/NJ and OCaml, and I just found it ... so hard to read. Not enough syntactic sugar or hints? I wanted to fall for it, but couldn't. That and the community around it was so enamoured with Deep Intellectual Ponderings and Very Novel Arcanities. That was good, sure, but ... hard.
- projektfu 4y agoIt's probably the point-free style that's generally used. I'm not very smart so I need to evaluate them and sometimes expand them in my head with variables. But once you start recognizing some patterns it's easier.
- bmitc 4y agoThe ML languages not taking off are also a mystery to me. F# hits so many sweet spots it makes it hard to find pleasure in other languages unless they offer something drastic like Elixir/Erlang or Prolog.