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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by addicted44 on Thursday November 13, 2014 @12:16AM (#8600057)
Why would you compare C# (although they keep adding functional programming concepts to it) to Scala, instead of comparing F# (which can commingle with C# wherever you need it) with Scala?

I haven't looked into F# or Scala too much, but I bet F# comes out looking far better, because it was so deeply inspired by Haskell (but made practical).

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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by frowaway001 on Thursday November 13, 2014 @09:35AM (#8601667)
> I bet F# comes out looking far better, because it was so deeply inspired by Haskell (but made practical)

Eh what? Scala is a lot closer to Haskell than F#/OCaml, and can express roughly the same things, while F# is a lot less expressive.

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