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by nv-vn 2873 days ago
It's always been funny to me as a functional programmer that Python took off. People always talk about how much quicker it is to write code in Python, and 99% of the time I find the Python code to be more complex than the OCaml/Scheme/Haskell/Common Lisp equivalents (minus, of course, the library support).
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nikofeyn 2873 days ago
yes, it's really sad. i feel like the ML and lisp dialects are all we ever needed. having these two languages allows so much. they're perfect for getting stuff done and they're perfect for creating new languages. there's no reason why they couldn't have been used to perform the roles of things like java or c++ or python, but yet, here we are.
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pjmlp 2872 days ago
Yeah, that is my though since I used Caml Light in the university, quite a while ago.

Specially since adding to what you mentioned, those languages were compiled since the early days.

It all boils down to lack of love from OS vendors.

Even nowadays, F# is still the black swan of .NET languages, with less tooling support that C++ gets.

So I came to appreciate the small additions we get in Java, C#, C++ to get closer to FP kind of programming than expecting a radical change.

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