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		pjmlp on May 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Metascala – A JVM written in Scala F# is a better starting point, giving its ML syntax that you can easily transport to OCaml, Haskell, Swift. I also like the language is functional first, meaning you are not forced to place functions inside companion objects or classes.

tormeh on May 26, 2015 [–]

Swift's syntax looks way more similar to Scala than to OCaml or Haskell.

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