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by vezzy-fnord 3982 days ago
OCaml, with a caveat that it's "or has non-blocking I/O", though ostensibly SMP is on its way.
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Wrong or right, I don't think that most people would consider ocaml simple to read.
I don’t know OCaml, but to the degree that it’s like F#, then it is the case that while it is not easy (at first), it is very simple. I can almost always understand any piece of ML code within a few passes, but that has a vanishingly low chance of happening with C# or VB, both of which I know extremely well.

N.B. I am using Rich Hickey’s definition of “simple” from his excellent talk “Simple Made Easy”.