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Re:Show HN: Bel by danmg on Saturday October 12, 2019 @08:13PM (#21237289)
If it's a language for general programming, I immediately ask if it has sum/product types, pattern matching, and static typing.

I'm not really interested in learning yet another dynlang that is missing all those.

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Re:Show HN: Bel by nuclearnice1 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:53PM (#21237757)
What are sum/product types?
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Re:Show HN: Bel by wbradley on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:08PM (#21237819)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type
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Re:Show HN: Bel by chrisseaton on Sunday October 13, 2019 @08:13AM (#21239978)
In terms of C, a sum is a union and a product is a struct.
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