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.. if you're willing to live in the set of languages coerced to fit in the .Net object model.

I'm not saying I don't like to get out of the .NET box; I do. But the point was within a single framework you have multiple languages that work well together.

I'm fairly language agnostic, but out of curiousity, what language doesn't .NET have that you want to work with? All my (language-y/syntaxy) needs are pretty much filled between IronRuby, IronPython, C#, and now F#.

Haskell and Erlang.

Fair enough. I do nearly 100% web development, so I haven't messed with those yet. They still don't give you anymore language interoperability than anything else, though.

Erlang does, sure. You can find libraries to make erlang nodes in most languages.

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