Work has been done on implementing two major functional languages for.NET:
Standard ML
and a partial implementation of Haskell at the Mondrian site (it already seems to be slashdotted so I won't make this worse).
The SML.NET compiler hasn't yet been released by Microsoft Research but hopefully it will be soon. As I understand it, it is a complete implementation of Standard ML, with a few (small) extensions to hook into the.NET object model.
In my opinion, this could be one of the best opportunities functional programming has to gain mainstream acceptance, because of the ease with which it will be possible to link functional code with imperative code.
This is why there were bishops in the House of Lords up until last year
There still are bishops in the Lords, I thought. And the King/Queen is head of the Church of England, and children get taught Christianity in school unless they specifically opt out.
Uh, the folder is still there (or another one). Under User Groupware/Social Discussions/Hobbies/Linux User Discussion. I'm looking at it right now. There's no big bad management stiffling free expression here.
I didn't say there was; the folder I was referring to was used by the summer interns and has definitely disappeared. Thanks for pointing out the other one, though.
I'll take credit for starting that folder. As an intern this past summer, I noticed that enough interns were linux users to warrant a Public Folder for such a discussion. I didn't create the folder myself, but if you look at the backlog, you'll notice a number of posts from me.
I can't any more - the folder has disappeared, but I remember you from it. Do you know if it was created by an intern (and would that explain why it's disappeared now)?
I'm an intern there at the moment - when I arrived there was a public folder (MS equivalent of a newsgroup) for discussing Linux which I think was set up by one of the summer interns - it had a reasonable amount of traffic for a while amongst the interns but I think it disappeared when whoever set it up left.
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The SML.NET compiler hasn't yet been released by Microsoft Research but hopefully it will be soon. As I understand it, it is a complete implementation of Standard ML, with a few (small) extensions to hook into the .NET object model.
In my opinion, this could be one of the best opportunities functional programming has to gain mainstream acceptance, because of the ease with which it will be possible to link functional code with imperative code.
This is why there were bishops in the House of Lords up until last year
There still are bishops in the Lords, I thought. And the King/Queen is head of the Church of England, and children get taught Christianity in school unless they specifically opt out.
I didn't say there was; the folder I was referring to was used by the summer interns and has definitely disappeared. Thanks for pointing out the other one, though.
I can't any more - the folder has disappeared, but I remember you from it. Do you know if it was created by an intern (and would that explain why it's disappeared now)?
I'm an intern there at the moment - when I arrived there was a public folder (MS equivalent of a newsgroup) for discussing Linux which I think was set up by one of the summer interns - it had a reasonable amount of traffic for a while amongst the interns but I think it disappeared when whoever set it up left.