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Why F#?

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447 points bozhidar | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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7thaccount ◴[01 Apr 25 13:05 UTC] No.43546330[source]▶
F# is beautiful, but I could never crack the nut and get fluent in it. I think the big problem is I only know a little C#, so it is difficult to figure out the object oriented methods that F# depends on. It was the same thing with Clojure and Scala for the JVM. I have zero interest in first learning C# or Java, just to use those platforms.
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1. diggan ◴[01 Apr 25 13:51 UTC] No.43546786[source]▶
> It was the same thing with Clojure and Scala for the JVM. I have zero interest in first learning C# or Java, just to use those platforms.

FWIW, I managed to learn Clojure without knowing anything from Java/JVM before diving into it. I did have plenty of JS experience which made ClojureScript easier to pick up I suppose, but Java works more or less the same as every other Algol-like and/or OOP language out there so if you have any previous experience with something like that, basic Java is trivial to pick up even accidentally.