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Re:Ask HN: which functional language to learn? by Stasyan on Monday July 06, 2009 @01:36PM (#690039)
It gets difficult. F# has pretty much everything from every other functional language. Even though F# is very consistent language. There are a lots of concepts to understand.
Re:Ask HN: which functional language to learn? by noblethrasher on Monday July 06, 2009 @02:33PM (#690171)
No, it has just a few concepts that if taken seriously (i.e. don't try to write imperative/prescriptive code) will lead to the natural discovery of many of its other features (or you'll end up inventing them yourself).
Re:Ask HN: which functional language to learn? by Stasyan on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:17PM (#690260)
I am talking about continuations and workflows -> these concepts are not that straight forward, especially if you are coming in from imperative programming background.
Re:Ask HN: which functional language to learn? by noblethrasher on Monday July 06, 2009 @04:19PM (#690372)
Fair enough. What I mean is that F# (and Haskell) can be useful without knowing about Workflows (and Monads). By the time you find yourself needing them you'd either invent them (fairly easily) or find them... It's not much harder than INNER JOIN in SQL which I also think most people would eventually invent if the language didn't have it.