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		alkonaut on Nov 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F# 4.0 Preview It's a functional language for the .NET platform. So you'll want it if you want a functional language and you want to use the .NET platform. Does that answer your question?

CmonDev on Nov 13, 2014 [–]

F# is a hybrid language just as C# is. Just a different flavour of the mix.

alkonaut on Nov 13, 2014 | [–]

Yes a longer answer is that it is "functional first" just like C# is "OO first". It's safe to say that f# is much closer to ML than Java tough, so it's very much a functional language in a way that C# is not.

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