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Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi... by V-2 on Sunday October 26, 2014 @09:24PM (#8513310)
To be fair, F# has its counterparts in the JVM world (like Scala or Clojure). I used the rather niche Kotlin lang on Android, for hobby projects so far, and it's pretty nice, too, even if not fully mature. More similar to Scala, I believe.
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Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi... by pmoriarty on Sunday October 26, 2014 @10:36PM (#8513490)
I don't think F# is particularly similar to Clojure. No more similar than OCaml or SML are to Lisp (which is not very).
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Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi... by V-2 on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:42AM (#8514328)
True, it's a different FP flavor. They (F#, Scala, Clojure) are in similar position though in that they're FP-centred alternatives to the main language of the platform (C#, Java)
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