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Re:Mono 3.6.0 is out by edgyswingset on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @11:18PM (#8171300)
Sometimes a procedural approach is better for certain (in my opinion, limited) problems. I'd rather use a procedural language for those cases.

Also, the .NET libraries we end up using were, to my knowledge, written in C#. Sometimes interacting with them feels awkward if done functionally.

Re:Mono 3.6.0 is out by MichaelGG on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @12:11AM (#8171397)
Fortunately, F# does OO and procedural pretty well, so you shouldn't feel pressure to use a functional style if it doesn't fit.

I noticed that was something certain folks tended to do, they'd insist on creating an expression as a series of folds and maps, even if it had a very simple expression otherwise (as a list comprehension or simple for..in loop). Cast those cares aside, and write what is most useful for your use case.

Sometimes though, you do want break/goto/continue, although in most cases I think such code is better off in C or Rust.