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		rjh29 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in prod... Seems similar to Perl, where there are about 20 ways to do any given thing, and 15 of those are deprecated or not recommended by the community.

mrkeen 8 months ago [–]

It usually follows that the fancier stuff is done for a reason, not just artistic expression.

So it's not that they're not the best way, it's just that not everyone knows how to do it that well.

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