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I've played with F#, OCaml, Haskell, Scala and Clojure. F# was by far the 'sweet spot' for me in terms of being able to translate my thoughts into a working functionally structured program. I hope many more are exposed to F# and that the good first experience is the norm (not currently from my experience).

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Me too :). I think it hits the sweet spot for me between being as readable, expressive, and low ceremony as Ruby/Python but also type safe.

And the trade-off of type inference and 'you have to hint here' vs compile speed is also well worth it. Like other comments here, I usually add local names or types to signatures 'for readability' (esp. to future me).

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