yetkin
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
Isn't it yet another copy of OCAML? I think it shouldn't say familiar but something different. I really don't underestimate any effort to make OCAML available on dot-net, but referring to excellent OCAML books can't be explained by simple 'familiarity'...
"So one Really Cool Feature of functional languages is the ability to break apart data structures and do pattern matching on the data. This is again not really a "functional" feature - you could imagine some variation of C appearing which would let you do this, but it's a Cool Feature nonetheless"
if i had no idea about C10K problem, success of Nginx, Redis, other concurrency success stories on Actors, CSP concept, Concurrency via messages over shared memory, I would say threads are ok when you can use it. But indeed it is so simple and tempting people to design shitty software. Software is a very welcoming medium for it. it is hell.