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		michaelsbradley on March 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clojure: All grown up Tried Frege? https://github.com/Frege/frege "Frege is a non-strict, pure functional programming language in the spirit of Haskell ... Frege programs are compiled to Java and run in a JVM. Existing Java Classes and Methods can be used seamlessly from Frege."

sigzero on March 12, 2013 [–]

" in the spirit of Haskell " means it isn't Haskell.

voxfrege on March 13, 2013 | [–]

True, but it's in the same camp, where "elegant" and "I have to write parentheses all the time" are two different concepts, and, and this was the point, it can use the JVM libraries. (in a type safe manner, btw)

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