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Re:On Marketing Haskell by klipt on Saturday May 30, 2020 @04:36PM (#23364467)
F# was inspired more by Ocaml than Haskell I think? Ocaml also takes a more practical approach to allowing side effects etc.
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Re:On Marketing Haskell by StreamBright on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:51AM (#23367749)
Yes, and I think this is why it wins. Practical implications matter the most for end users. I like OCaml too. However, F# has way more libraries, and I think it is easier to get buy-in from all sorts of developers, at least this is my experience.
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Re:On Marketing Haskell by dunefox on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:53AM (#23368421)
F# makes it possible to work with unicode strings, as opposed to Ocaml, which is huge.
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