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Re:Why OCaml? by timclark on Sunday September 11, 2011 @03:54AM (#2983441)
If F# worked well on Mono I would be using F# for a lot of my work, and F# isn't a million miles away from being OCAML.
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Re:Why OCaml? by darklajid on Sunday September 11, 2011 @06:25AM (#2983575)
What doesn't work?

As far as I know that combination is working fine and even supported/embraced by the teams involved?

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Re:Why OCaml? by gtani on Sunday September 11, 2011 @12:10PM (#2984017)
I've been meaning to try this. In meantime: Only 1 critical open ticket:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specifi...

Not a lot volume on google group and stackoverflow

http://groups.google.com/group/fsharp-opensource/topics

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mono+f%23

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Re:Why OCaml? by luu on Sunday September 11, 2011 @11:48AM (#2983965)
I haven't tried with the latest version of Mono but, with the previous version, some useful and common libraries (e.g., FParsec) weren't fully supported. I've heard that F# support has improved in the latest version, but that it's still not complete.

I haven't tested it myself because I got tired of working around Mono issues, and just wrote a little script that sends .fsx scripts to my windows machine, runs them there, and returns the output on my linux machine. I can see why you wouldn't want to do that in a production environment, though.

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