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Re:Elm for the Front End, Right Now by salimmadjd on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @05:10PM (#13026184)
when I spoke with Evan (you can usually meet him at the Elm SF meetup) I believe he said Elm was inspired more by OCaml than Haskell. But since many people might have heard of Haskell more than OCaml, Haskell is a better general answer.
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Re:Elm for the Front End, Right Now by kinkdr on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @07:38PM (#13026993)
The syntax is closer to Haskell than Ocaml.

Foe example types in Ocaml usually start with lower letter.

Also Elm has "Maybe", just like Haskell, instead of "option" of Ocaml.

Also in Elm, like in Haskell you would write "List Sometype", while in Ocaml it is "sometype list".

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Re:Elm for the Front End, Right Now by masklinn on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:40AM (#13030844)
Yeah the syntax is clearly Haskell, the semantics are more ML-ish.
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