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Such a thought provoking language. Docs are a good read, and reach a standard that few production languages come close to.



Agreed, Koka has great documentation, although I will acknowledge that it is incomplete. The papers are suprisingly approachable with good user applicable examples and motivation before they get too deep into type theory etc. I recommend reading a few of the more recent ones, which have mind blowing implications.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/fiptree... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/tail-re... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/fp2-ful...


Amazing stuff -- thank you for sharing these papers.

The implications for things like data science frameworks and spreadsheets are particularly interesting. Perhaps we are within reach of a much more equational approach to programming with high performance.




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