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I read PDF documents only if there's a gun to my head (filling the form out for renting my current address was the last time, nearly two years ago. It's people like the inventors of pdf that make me wish I believed in Hell so I could send them there!
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Do what?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well said! 
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Bless you. Don't forget to wipe your nose.
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Every now and then I read some religiously fervent blog which tells me I have been all wrong all that time, and it's well past time I convert to F#.
Mm.... More and more.
I had a few foray into F# a few years back. Was not really enthused. I know no one who used regularly! 
What's all the hype about?!
[EDIT]
Just did some study...
I think F# is the C# vNext experimental lab. MS want people to use to have feedback on which feature is gonna make it in C#.
Thing is many revolutionary F# thing are just like the usual bread and better C# 4.6 features...
In a word, not to worry! ^_^
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I remember when it first made an appearance I took a look at it and there was a large wtf?
Never looked at it again!
Then when I was doing my OU studies and doing all the functional type stuff in AI, made me wonder........but nope, still never went back! 
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Just did some study...
I think F# is the C# vNext experimental lab. MS want people to use to have feedback on which feature is gonna make it in C#.
Thing is many revolutionary F# thing are just like the usual bread and better C# 4.6 features...
In a word, not to worry! ^_^
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functional languages have their uses - they can be great for quickly building DSLs
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Still in progress of grasping Haskell for this very purpose...
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I am not sure Haskell is the way to go - that really is an experimental language - by design. Are you using Parsec?
OCaml is pretty good - here's a great tutorial for creating a compiler using a LLVM backend for a rather funky language:
http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/OCamlLangImpl1.html[^]
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Quote: I am not sure Haskell is the way to go - that really is an experimental language
Do you mean it is unsuited for practical applications?
Quote: Are you using Parsec?
Nope, I would like to use directly the language features instead.
Quote: OCaml is pretty good
It is not the first time I see OCaml mentioned for this purpose.
Thank you for the advices.
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Haskell can be used for practical purposes, I am just not sure it would be my first choice - although, and it's a while since I looked at it, they do issue a standard then publish the more experimental features as optional (I think GHC does that)
I think Parsec can be considered a language feature
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Consider I am really a newbie on functional languages (Lua functional features sparked my curiosity). I have read several times functional languages features help a lot while writing a DLS compiler, so I start learning Haskell (without great luck, I have to say...) using GHC. In order to understand what are the advantages of functional languages over imperative ones I tend to avoid using what I consider a library (but my judgement on this may be wrong).
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I don't think languages these days can be isolated from their core libraries - personally I often find using well built libraries as a great tool to learning the actual language - you get to see how experts have used it to define interfaces - that's a great help, particularly with function languages.
I am no FP expert either
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In college, we had to use OCaml to build a compiler for "mini-Java" as they called it. It was essentially Java with a few of the more complex keywords taken out. At first it seemed rather complicated, but once you figured out how it worked, it was a pretty repetitive process for each keyword/operator. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Speaking of which.. in what way is F# more functional that C# ?
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At the very least! 
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No off-key remarks in the Lounge, please!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Your reproach struck an unsymphatetic chord in me!
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