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		CmonDev on Nov 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F# 4.0 Preview 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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