On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Charlie Coleman <[email protected]> wrote: > At 03:33 PM 12/24/2008 -0800, Paul McNett wrote: >>Allen wrote: >> > Maybe there will be a D++ in VS one day. >> >>Boy, I sure hope not! >> >>Paul > > Well, unfortunately, there certainly will be. Not sure what the name will > be, but it's 100% certain that MS MUST keep changing things in order to > make money. And as long as there are those stupid enough to follow along, > the computer industry will continually burn money to do nothing more than > "change" for the sake of MS. > > But new languages are a bit more difficult to bring on the scenes (although > I think F-something, F#?, is being pushed by MS). So, in the near term, you > can expect MS to simply keep changing their "frameworks" around, requiring > folks to keep upgrading to the latest version of VS, latest version of SQL, > etc. The "business" computer industry is truly an insane world. ----------------------------
F# is a functional language. More here on who it is comprised of <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fsharp/community.aspx> for the F# wiki <http://www.strangelights.com/fsharp/Wiki/default.aspx> I am sure that charlie would be surprised at how M$ is approaching it's newer open source concepts. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
