On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 12:42:47 UTC, Stuart wrote:
On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 09:37:47 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I tend to favour F# instead of OCaml due to three things
I've never really seen the point of F#. Aside from maths, what
is F# good for that a standard imperative language is not?
Especially when you consider that all flavours of .NET have
native support for LINQ.
Let me see:
- Symbolic code manipulation;
- Metaprogramming;
- Easy parallelization of code thanks to immutable data
structures and workflows
- Type providers (comming in F# 3.0) to manipulate remote data as
language data types
- The right way of doing type inference (shared by all ML
languages)
- Asynchronous programming builtin without having to wait for
.NET 4.5
- Algebraic data types
Microsoft wouldn't have brought F# into Visual Studio if it
wasn't worth it, Microsoft is a business, not a language charity
company.
