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		pharmakom on June 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beaut... I think the big win is actually immutable data and pure functions. It just so happens that strong typing tends to come along with these things (e.g. Haskell, OCaml)

phyrex on June 25, 2022 [–]

Clojure is the big outlier

fulafel on June 25, 2022 | [–]

And Erlang / Elixir. These are also some of the most widely used FP languages in delivering real world software.

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