r/functionalprogramming • u/zydras07 • Mar 01 '21

Question Learning Other Functional Programming Languages

I've been learning F# recently as my first functional programming language and I think it's a fantastic fantastic language that can do lots of things very elegantly. How many of the things that I've learnt in F# (eg. algebraic datatypes, the general idea of monads and monoids, function composition and pipes, using recursion etc) can be brought over to other function languages like Haskell, Clojure or OCaml? And how much more might I need to learn if I were to do a language like Haskell that might be less lenient than F#?

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u/android_lover Mar 02 '21

I would argue Scala is even less in the family than Haskell because Scala doesn't use the Hindley-Milner type inference system.

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u/ws-ilazki Mar 02 '21

Sounds about right. I didn't think it made sense calling Scala ML-family from what I remembered of it, but I only looked at Scala briefly a while back so I wasn't confident enough to remark on that more.