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samatman on Sept 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Haskell?

> SML, OCaml: algebraic data types, pattern matching, type inference, semicolon statement separation

> Haskell (GHC): typeclasses, type families

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html

hollerith on Sept 13, 2024 [–]

Haskell has algebraic data types, pattern matching and type inference, too, and has had them since Haskell first appeared in 1990.

Although SML is older (1983), OCaml is younger than Haskell.

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