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by caditinpiscinam 2255 days ago
I'm not super familiar with f#, but Pointless definitely takes inspiration from languages in the ML family, while only offering a small subset of their features. One of the questions I want to explore in this project is how programming language design can shape the learning process for beginners, centering on the idea that the features that a language chooses not to include are often key. I was pretty influenced by Mark Seemann's essay [0] on this idea.

[0] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2015/04/13/less-is-more-language-featu...