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As far as F#/OCaml goes, that's excellent. (I'm convinced one of the reasons why Rust is so popular is because it's OCaml with a legible syntax.)
by genter 3y ago
As far as F#/OCaml goes, that's excellent.
(I'm convinced one of the reasons why Rust is so popular is because it's OCaml with a legible syntax.)
- pharmakom 3y agoF# has diverged quite a lot from OCaml and is very readable IMO. In any case, I think this view stems from our Algol/c/Java centric CS education system that casts ML and Lisp as weird and “unreadable”, when really it’s just a matter of perspective.
- jcelerier 3y ago> when really it’s just a matter of perspective. it's really not, in the engineering school I did in the first year we were taught both C and LISP during the same semester and it was obvious to almost everyone except math nerds how much easier C was mapped to a normal human being (e.g. someone without prior programming experience)'s mental model of the world