X# Functional Programming from Microsoft?

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."

Comments

Humorists!

[avalys]

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

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

Is .NET .DEAD yet?

[MacAndrew]

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

You know.. in music..

[MarvinMouse]

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.

Re:You know.. in music..

[Alethes]

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?

Can we just put and end to this already m$

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

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!

Re:What good are functional languages?

[hding]

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.