On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:32:11PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Unfortunately I am hesitant to touch even their good ideas with a 10 > foot pole because I know anything they create will be twisted to screw > me out of money and lock me into their system. Fortunately there are > plenty of other excellent functional programming platforms out there > and this can legitimize their use: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-microsoft-to-push-functional-programming-into-the-mainstream-with-f.html
I'm not one to use Microsoft products either. However, it would be interesting to see this having the effect of adding a requirement for functional programming to job advertisements. Perhaps it'll be like Java in the dot-com bubble: requiring five years of Java experience in 1997. I don't suppose it'll be long before we see F# for Mono. Not that I'd use it then either, but de Icaza is likely champing at the bit to reimplement yet another Microsoft product. Me? I'm waiting for Perl 6. I hear it'll be out around Christmas...
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