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What's the general opinion on F#?

From my limited knowledge it seems to be taking the good concepts from more obscure or academic functional languages and making them easier to implement with the help of the existing .NET infrastructure.

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For all intents and purposes, it is OCaml on .NET. I currently work in a .NET shop and it has made functional programming a real possibility when using the .NET stack. Combine that with the functional capabilities of C# and you have a real possibility of at least some of the features of functional languages becoming mainstream. I am hopeful.

Hopefully, from my personal experience when I was interning in a .NET shop I first heard of F#. Didn't ask them at the time but it seemed like even just making a choice between VB and C# on most projects wasn't an option. Wonder now if they would allow F# for project.

My experience is the same, but you have to think that F# would be a possibility much more so than Lisp/Haskell/Erlang/etc. would be.

I absolutely adore F#. It's basically a direct port of OCaml, in the earlier versions if you omitted #light then it was basically OCaml. I personally very much enjoy the pipe operator (|>) which lets you pass the output of one function as the input of another.

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