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I'm glad to see F# mentioned. All to often it's dismissed in my discussions with friends, because. Net is uncool in general or because they didn't know that F# is officially backed and therefor quite likely here to stay.

Seeing a link here where it is mentioned with/compared to Scala and Haskell is a refreshing change.

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I have enough difficulty convincing people in my .NET based company that it's a fully supported language that ships with Visual Studio and the .NET runtime.

I recently had someone complaining that they'd have to install extra software to use it! Took a lot of convincing otherwise.

This story sounds familiar...

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