On 7/28/12 10:04 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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.
It was for Basic :o). Anyhow, indeed, the tools around it make F# pretty
cool (just not all that original as a language).
Andrei
