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A comment on Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (2011). Parent comment

Re:Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (... by thirsteh on Sunday March 30, 2014 @06:52PM (#7498335)
Right -- I wasn't sure whether F# would be considered "practical" in this case.
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Re:Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (... by platz on Sunday March 30, 2014 @07:04PM (#7498367)
I guess F# isn't practical if you're building a WPF application (I agree the tooling is lacking). Otherwise it seems like it can do everything C# does (including mutation, classes, interfaces, properties), only with a slightly unfamiliar (at first) syntax.
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