12 Jul
2018
12 Jul
'18
1:20 p.m.
quoth Joachim Durchholz
F# is OCaml, ported and adapted to .net. Or at least it started that way; I don't know how far they have diverged.
Rather far. Don't quote me, I know only what I've read about F# and am not sure I know that, but lots of Objective CAML was tossed, and of course there's a lot of .NET. The syntax apparently uses significant white space, so that's one huge step forward if it works - the standard Objective CAML syntax is quite evil in that respect. But I believe the interesting parts are gone: modules, and the OOP implementation, which I have the impression might be one of the more respectable OO designs. Donn