Haskell
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Haskell is the language PhD students use to make you feel bad about for-loops. Everything is immutable. Side effects are quarantined in monads. If your Haskell code compiles, it's probably correct — the type system caught every mistake you were about to make.
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F#
F# is C#'s functional sibling that nobody at your job has heard of but is quietly excellent. It's like Haskell but you can still use .
Functional Programming
Functional programming is like cooking with strict rules: no shared bowls, no side dishes contaminating each other, and every dish must be exactly reproduc...
Monad
A monad is a design pattern for chaining operations that have extra 'context' — like maybe-empty values, async results, or errors.
OCaml
OCaml is the language that Jane Street (a major quant trading firm) bet their entire infrastructure on.