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sourcegrifttoday at 10:49 AM3 repliesview on HN

I've had nothing but great experience with F#. If it wasn't associated with Microsoft, it'd be more popular than haskell


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raincoletoday at 10:59 AM

I think if it weren't a 'first class' member of .NET ecosystem[0], no one would know F#. After all Haskell and Ocaml already exist.

[0]: my very charitable take, as MS obviously cares C# much much more than F#.

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dude250711today at 11:16 AM

> ...it'd be more popular than haskell

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers...

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lynx97today at 11:07 AM

You realize that Microsoft Research employed Simon for many many years?