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Re:Ask HN: which functional language to learn? by peregrine on Monday July 06, 2009 @02:03PM (#690101)
Could also be the very new state of it with lack of good documentation.
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Re:Ask HN: which functional language to learn? by sdevlin on Monday July 06, 2009 @02:17PM (#690142)
And the lack of existing code to take cues from. I looked at F# earlier in the year, and this was the thing that tripped me up the most. I can wrap my head around functional programming "in the small" pretty easily, but I'm pretty stumped about how to put together a full application.
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