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> Other well known languages in the ML family include OCaml, F#, and Visual Basic. I feel like this went over my head... is this a .NET joke? Is there more to
by siddboots 13y ago
> Other well known languages in the ML family include OCaml, F#, and Visual Basic.
I feel like this went over my head... is this a .NET joke? Is there more to it than just that just that Visual Basic is the antithesis of ML?
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoMaybe Erik Meijer?
- pjmlp 13y agoMaybe it refers to Erik Meijer? A famous Haskell developer that went to Microsoft to work on Visual Basic team and started there the LINQ project? http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/emeijer/papers/es012-meijer.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/emeijer/papers...
- mhartl 13y agoIs there more to it than just that Visual Basic is the antithesis of ML? Nope, you've got it. This is the joke.