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> Scala is more OOP, F# is more FP

That depends on your background. As far as FP goes, I wouldn't see myself working in a FP language that doesn't have type-classes or something similar. Clojure has protocols and multimethods, Scala has type-classes based on implicits, while F# doesn't have anything like that.

> F# is looking more "clean" than Scala.

I don't know about that, I got used to Scala code. As far as the languages are concerned, I hate for instance how F# imported some language features from C# that really needed to die a long time ago, like static class members and operator overloading based on said static class members. Scala on the other hand cleaned all that crap. My problem with F# is basically that it has 2 type systems in the same language. Same problem that Ocaml has really, except Ocaml can also do some pretty cool tricks with structural typing for OOP that F# cannot.

But anyway, these issues are actually irrelevant because the choice for developers will end up being the answer to ".NET or the JVM?"

parent bad_user 13 years ago

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