Tony Morris

@oxnrtr @zerology #scala is just immitating #haskell based languages; #fsharp is pragmatic, non-confusing and useful in a routine setting.

@irrequietus Is there any point you are trying to make? Because all I see is some desperate clutching at any possible straw. :-)

@oxnrtr The only point is that #fsharp on #dotnet is more useful than #scala is on the #jvm. As for more functionalism, #haskell beats both.

@irrequietus @oxnrtr F# is quite a bit less powerful than Scala. I would never want to program the former when I could choose the latter.

@runT1ME @oxnrtr ... and once they start seeing the benefits and understand how things work, they go after #haskell for their study.

@irrequietus @oxnrtr @bitemyapp And by this logic, java8/C# would be even better at showing the benefits than F# despite being less powerful

@runT1ME @oxnrtr @bitemyapp ... but #fsharp people do not pretend their language is #haskell. Unfortunately, #scala people do that.

@irrequietus @runT1ME Huh? Scala and Haskell share some useful abstraction, mostly because the math behind it applies equally to all langs