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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by eloisant on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @12:54PM (#8596972)
F# is not really like Scala in the sense that it's more "extreme" in terms of FP, you can't easy fallback on more classical patterns if FP doesn't work well for your problem.
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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by edgyswingset on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @01:57PM (#8597411)
Yes you can. I haven't found a traditional Object-Oriented pattern I can't use in F# ... but honestly, I've usually just ended up molding things to fit pattern-matching and reduced the complexity of things in the process.
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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by frowaway001 on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @05:31PM (#8598716)
> F# [...] more "extreme" in terms of FP

In the sense of lacking higher-kinded types and typeclasses?

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