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And C# "fixes" the deficiencies by heaping features upon features. Already it looks like the MS version of Perl.

Scala with all of its symbolic notation would be more like Perl than C# is. Scala also can run on .net[1].

[1] http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/10299

The Scala .NET backend is being deprecated in 2.11.

Hmm, that's too bad. I haven't found a use case myself for needing it on .net, but I can understand it's probably a pain for TypeSafe to maintain it for both the JVM and the CLR.

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