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It's a pleasure to see such straight-faced parody. Bravo to Ars, although I was kind of sad to see them include the disclaimer at the end for those who don't get the joke.

As someone who prefers to develop on Mac and Linux, I'm still a bit jealous of F# and the IDE integration it enjoys. And yes, I know about MonoDevelop.

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Re: the last paragraph:

Sadly I lost that battle. I didn't want to include it, but sometimes we writers do not get to make those decisions.

After reading the piece, I think a good case could be made that Visual Studio 2010 is, in fact, a game. I'm already imagining two lawyers presenting their cases to a jury.

(If you think such things never happen, consider the case of Nix v. Hedden, which concerned the question, "Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?" That case went all the way to the US Supreme Court! Botanists argued that they're fruit because they're the part of the plant that contains the seeds. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden )

Or the Radiolab short recently about how Marvel Comics went to the Supreme Court to prove that X-Men are not human.

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/dec/22/muta...

In fact, you could even more broadly make the case that programming is the ultimate video game...

Or the Radiolab short recently about how Marvel Comics went to the Supreme Court to prove that X-Men are not human.

That's too bad. I wish your editor had had more respect for your readers.

Although maybe he was right: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/oorgn/microsoft_keep...

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