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Grich · Oct 24th, 2007, 10:19 PM

God damn! Not another .NET language, I have to start learning another one! And I just got the hang of C#.

DaWei · Oct 24th, 2007, 10:26 PM

Gee. Flat.

Infinite Recursion · Oct 25th, 2007, 8:43 AM

C Dull.

Arevos · Oct 25th, 2007, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Booooze

Great, another freaking language! hehe, I don't mind, but is it really necessary? My brief reading of the first article didn't really entice me much.

Considering how primitive most mainstream languages are, I'd say any deviation from the norm is a good idea.

Baphomet · Oct 25th, 2007, 12:08 PM

.NET. An alternative to Java. Personally, both .NET languages and Java are annoying to use. Maybe because I'm so use to C++.

Mad_guy · Oct 26th, 2007, 9:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Jessehk

F# (and by extension OCaml) is pretty neat. For developing on Windows though, I can't imagine people using it over C#.

Ah, but it does allow those who love functional programming (like myself) to give back to those who use typical .NET languages on a regular basis, in the form of a supported and fairly well established functional language (in terms of being based on Caml which has seen its share of industrial usage.)

Personally, I get an incredibly large sense of dislike when I see Caml-based languages (and most likely by association, I haven't messed with F#.) But I've just installed F# 1.9.2.9 and am looking to experiment and potentially do something interesting with it in the near future.

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Originally Posted by SamReidHughes

That looks really neat. I'm kind of getting sick of Haskell right now, thanks to some painful space leaks,

What kind of space leaks are happening? I've been with haskell for (almost) a year now and haven't had many [if any] leaking issues (despite the claims it does it "uncontrollably.") I'd be really interested in hearing any stories or seeing some code, if you're willing to show any...

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but it's a shame I got rid of my last Windows partition.

F# has high mono support, it seems. Don Syme, who seems to be the head of F# development generally posts .ZIP files for Mono paired with typical MSI installers from a quick look over. At the very least, you can get a link to the mono zip for F# 1.9.2.9 from this blog entry.

SamReidHughes · Oct 26th, 2007, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Mad_guy

What kind of space leaks are happening? I've been with haskell for (almost) a year now and haven't had many [if any] leaking issues (despite the claims it does it "uncontrollably.") I'd be really interested in hearing any stories or seeing some code, if you're willing to show any...

It was in some numerical code, an implementation of a Naive Bayes learning algorithm. Something somewhere was building up what I guess to be a huge numerical expression, and despite my best efforts, I couldn't strictify it away. I ended up having to run some programs' outer loops in Perl.

mattireland · Oct 27th, 2007, 9:47 AM

Wow! Just also downloaded. I like the title very much!

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