How do I explain what's good about F#?

Posted by Ramon Snir on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Ramon Snir
Published on 2011-02-01T21:04:44Z Indexed on 2011/02/03 7:33 UTC
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Many people ask me to explain to them why is F# (or other functional languages) better (or different) than other languages they know (like Java, C#, C++).

Until today, I either tried showing few examples or using longs scary words or lending Tomas Petricek's book, but I find those ways either time consuming or unclear.

Is there a simple(r) way to explain functional programming to imperative programmers?

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