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JacobiX on July 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A deep dive into Multicore OCaml garbage collector

F# is basically an OCaml clone. I wonder why it isn't called NCaml or something like that. F# lacks some functional programming features the powerful macro system used for creating domain specific languages and extending the ocaml language.

pjmlp on July 17, 2017 [–]

It is related to previous OCaml.NET efforts.

F# computation expressions, coupled with .NET expression trees are quite useful though, even though they aren't macros as such.

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