[gar1t]

A power and persuasive essay on the essential merits of functional languages.

Erlang is ugly

Haskell is beautiful, like Karate

OCaml is impenetrably unexciting

F# is polished. And mainstream

Scala is a tour de force of concepts. Tiobe Top 20

[evangineer]

I wonder if the author would feel the same way about OCaml if he had come across it before Scala.

I suspect not somehow.

[fhars]

I came to scala because it is in fact an acceptable ocaml that runs on the JVM.

[evangineer]

Kind of my point. I think he's meh on Ocaml because Scala has the same features & runs on the JVM, seeing it after using Scala wouldn't be very exciting. However Ocaml was around years before Scala.

[gaius]

It's an interesting analogy. Whenever Karate fighters enter MMA contests, they get their arses handed to them by BJJ fighters - the beauty of their art doesn't translate into effectiveness in competition.

[ubojan]

Yes it does. It's hard to be a successful MMA fighter relying on just one martial art. Just look at Machida how he beautifully incorporates karate in MMA game.

[mb21]

scala is in the 50-100 range now according to http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....