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		whateveracct on April 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Sell Excellence Sure maybe it's not good for FP if you're Edward Kmett. > The reason, I'm hesitant to give it a fifth star is ultimately that I don't believe that Scala is a good language in which to actually do functional programming. Literally the only other mainstream language that he would be able to say is capable of "fp" better than Scala would be Haskell.

tel on April 3, 2015 [–]

OCaml, if that passes your "mainstream" test.

whateveracct on April 3, 2015 | [–]

Since OCaml doesn't have first-class higher-kinded types in the way Scala and Haskell do, I didn't think it would be acceptable by ekmett standards.

tel on April 3, 2015 | | [–]

That's probably fair.

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