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X# Functional Programming from Microsoft?

Posted by timothy on from the rumor-pile dept.

TheSync writes "SearchWebServices.Com has an article claiming that Microsoft is working on a functional language named 'X#'. The language is supposed to be data-oriented and LISP-like, but set up to handle XML."

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  1. Humorists! by avalys · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Microsoft is working on a functional language...".

    Heh...funny. We're finally getting some humor around here.

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  2. Is .NET .DEAD yet? by MacAndrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been waiting for the .ANNOUNCEMENT, but .MAYBE I'm .HOPING for too .MUCH.

  3. You know.. in music.. by MarvinMouse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being sharp isn't a good thing... It's actually common for singers who don't know how to sing to sing sharp... Yet, Microsoft likes C#, and X# (X isn't even a note this time.) I am excited though. I am waiting for someone to tune Microsoft a bit and perhaps release b-flat, or perhaps D##.

    Sometimes being sharp is useful (in the right key), but if you already know the key is C, C# is not a good note to hit.

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    1. Re:You know.. in music.. by Alethes · · Score: 4, Funny

      but if you already know the key is C, C# is not a good note to hit.

      Tell that to any of the jazz guys that like the sound of a flat-9. :)

      Yeah, offtopic. Who cares?

    2. Re:You know.. in music.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bah! You tonality freaks get me everytime. "Oooh, I play music in a 'key', look at me". "Oooh, I select notes that 'sound good', I'm so special".

      Personally, I just bang my fists like hunks of meat into the keyboard, giving rise to a rhythmic cocaphany of clusters and un-harmonies. As I pummel the black and white monster with my hands I hear the sounds of our society, mechanized and dissonant, like a great hulking beast trampling all things beautiful. I weep a single tear as I consider that each note is a human life, stomped out again and again by the wandering beast.

      Well actually I can't play the piano at all but this helps me hide that fact.

  4. Can we just put and end to this already m$ by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 3, Funny


    Just go ahead and take every language that you did not have a hand in and make something like it.

    Maybe just give it a couple of things here and there to make it work better with microsoft products and slap a # on some letter.

    This killing us slowly with your "new" stuff is well...killing me.

    The next thing you know they are going to be taking something like unix and adding a letter to it and calling it the greatest thing sence sliced bread...oh wait, someone already did that with an L... guess you missed that one but you can steal it!

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  5. Re:Oy... by DiscoOnTheSide · · Score: 2, Funny

    MS Lisp? I bet $10 that much like calling Microsoft Micro$oft and calling VB "VD" this will get the insulting name...."microthoft" *rimshot* :)

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  6. Re:What good are functional languages? by hding · · Score: 3, Funny

    can Scheme or LISP be used for any real development?

    Gee, I hope so. Otherwise a lot of the software I've written for my employer's trading business the past few years isn't real.