small thing but you curry functions like:

 def x(a:Int, b:Int) = a + b

as

def x(a:Int) (b:Int) = a + b

but don't let that get in the way of a good straw man argument. F#
looks quite nice though, kudos to MS for making it a top tier VS.net
language (which I believe that have done).


On May 15, 10:35 am, Robert Fischer <[email protected]>
wrote:
> If Dick is going to keep going on about how functional and mathematical Scala 
> is, and how that's so
> great, maybe he should check out OCaml/F#?
>
> I've just posted to my blog about how Scala is *not* a functional language.  
> Which is not to say
> it's a bad language -- it's just not a functional language.
>
> http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/scala-not-functional/
>
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