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> being scarred by FP assignments back from university is one of the top feedbacks

It's funny, seeing awesome FP assignments in SML and OCaml is one of the few things that makes me really want to go back and do a computer science degree. Alas, it seems like functional languages are disappearing from universities one by one these days, only to be replaced by Python or Java.

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You (and I) are definitely in the minority here. "Go back and do a computer science degree" is probably the opposite wish of lots of software engineers, in terms of quantity.

From what I know, there are at least three classes in some universities (forgot the names) whose professors/TAs told me they were teaching Reason to decent success. Reason's also used in this users study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07583.pdf. Reason removes the unfamiliarity part in order for them to get to the core of the research, which is still done in OCaml.

Don't lose hope! =)

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