On Wed, October 24, 2007 6:31 pm, Chris Grau wrote: > 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...
A little bit of superficial research on Wikipedia has convinced me that I will probably never grok functional programming. I also suspect that if you were to scratch F#, you'd find large blocks of OCaml code in it. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
