Tony Morris

@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

@oxnrtr @runT1ME Sharing a useful abstraction is one thing; using it better is another; #haskell is better than #scala at doing this.

@irrequietus Yes, maybe, apart from the damage done by Haskell's useless module system. Oh, and that accident with Applicative/Monad.