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		fhars on May 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Functional languages will rule (but not this year) I came to scala because it is in fact an acceptable ocaml that runs on the JVM.

evangineer on May 28, 2011 [–]

Kind of my point. I think he's meh on Ocaml because Scala has the same features & runs on the JVM, seeing it after using Scala wouldn't be very exciting. However Ocaml was around years before Scala.

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