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A comment on Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language.

Re:Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language by passthejoe on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:42AM (#20809468)
The name is already taken:

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

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Re:Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language by ModernMech on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:29AM (#20809917)
That's not a programming language. Different namespace.
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Re:Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language by toomim on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:45PM (#20813136)
No, but it's also in the space of functional programming language research.
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Re:Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language by zenhack on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:13PM (#20813977)
I don't think a file sync tool that happens to be written in OCaml qualifies as FP research.
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Re:Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language by toomim on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:32AM (#20836160)
That's fair, but it was written by Ben Pierce of the FP research community. It's nice not to have two projects named the same thing within the same community.
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