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gar1t | 14 years ago

A power and persuasive essay on the essential merits of functional languages.

Erlang is ugly

Haskell is beautiful, like Karate

OCaml is impenetrably unexciting

F# is polished. And mainstream

Scala is a tour de force of concepts. Tiobe Top 20

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evangineer|14 years ago

I wonder if the author would feel the same way about OCaml if he had come across it before Scala.

I suspect not somehow.

fhars|14 years ago

I came to scala because it is in fact an acceptable ocaml that runs on the JVM.

gaius|14 years ago

It's an interesting analogy. Whenever Karate fighters enter MMA contests, they get their arses handed to them by BJJ fighters - the beauty of their art doesn't translate into effectiveness in competition.

ubojan|14 years ago

Yes it does. It's hard to be a successful MMA fighter relying on just one martial art. Just look at Machida how he beautifully incorporates karate in MMA game.