[HN Gopher] Cellular Automata in F#
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       Cellular Automata in F#
        
       Author : de_keyboard
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-11-06 19:25 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | peheje wrote:
       | F# is a pretty cool language. What do you think about coding in
       | it compared to other languages? (And what other?) Would love to
       | hear some comparisons.
        
         | lmc wrote:
         | Since getting into F# as a hobbyist, it's put me off doing C#
         | professionally. Makes doing C# for typical business dev seem
         | like walking through treacle.
         | 
         | There can be a lot to learn, which is a mix of functional
         | programming stuff (recursion-first, immutability, and getting
         | used to type definitions and function signatures), and
         | F#-specifics like computation expressions, active patterns and
         | quotations.
         | 
         | There will be many better examples than mine, but here's some
         | more F# cellular automata stuff from last year's Advent of Code
         | (spoiler alert):
         | https://github.com/lukesdm/aoc-2020/blob/main/FSharp/Day24.f...
        
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