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Re:The Problem with F# Evangelism by toyotaboy on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:58PM (#15030743)
No one who knew what they were talking about at Microsoft said F# was for mathematicians and engineers. It's a myth pushed by C# programmers and idiots. It's nonsense and you shouldn't repeat it.

People at Microsoft repeatedly said "Simple Code for Simple Problems". C# programmers don't like repeating that.

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Re:The Problem with F# Evangelism by MichaelGG on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:34PM (#15031141)
Doesn't matter if they didn't know what they're talking about, that was what was written on the Microsoft sites when comparing C#, VB, F#. F# was always pigeonholed into scientific and financial categories, never aimed at general code.

I'm only repeating it to point out that MS itself did poor marketing for F#, clearly favouring C#.

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Re:The Problem with F# Evangelism by toyotaboy on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:40AM (#15035135)
Microsoft didn't promote that idea. Some random people at Microsoft did, a very long time ago. Just forget about it and move on.
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