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Or rather F#. Sorry, poor musician's joke, which doesn't translate, but Lucy my wife will get it. (she's a muso, not a geek)
In my new role I've been starting to look around at dev technologies I can start playing around with again to bring me into dev conversations. There's not to many people I get to talk with on a daily basis that have the memory or inclination to discuss the Environment Division in a COBOL program.
It seems F# could be one of those technologies.
No, no, I'm not going to be cutting (a lot of) code. But for the first time in a while, this language piqued my interest.
For all you dev heads that do a lot of code cutting, and follow the developments of languages, this'll all be old hat. But for me, there was an "aha" moment this morning.
Recently we announced that F# would change from project status a be a MS language, i.e. a product, available for development in Visual Studio 2008.
The project is led by Don Syme, out of our Cambridge MSR facility. Why it's interesting (to me at least) is that it combines both the strong typing benefits of a language like C#, with the succinctness of a language like Python. A combination of both Functional and Object Orientation programming techniques. In short easy (I like that) and performant.
Check it out at http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp
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