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It seems like a lifetime ago, but I actually spent one year in college mainly learning OCaml. The language is really elegant, but I'm not sure I ever saw a rea

• colomon 15y ago
  Unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html In fact I think this is the only software that I know is written in a functional language that I use on a regular basis. I've always figured that said very good things about OCaml. (Not that I've ever gotten around to learning OCaml, mind you.)
  • swah 15y ago
    And the author also wrote "Types and programming languages"...
  • danieldk 15y ago
    But, most FP languages have only recently started gaining real traction outside academia. There are some great tools written in e.g. Haskell: pandoc (a document converter), Hakyll (a static site generator), Darcs (version management), xmonad (an X11 window manager), git-annex, and multiple web frameworks (Yesod, Snap, Happstack). In recent years, some important foundational libraries have been developed (bytestring, text, vector, repa, conduit/enumerator, etc.). I can imagine that it's pretty much the same in OCaml and F#.