Actually Nemerle is a language worth talking about. What those guys are doing is brilliant. I remember even years ago - playing with the language - I was able to embed a natural syntax for a constraint programming library, encode a clean syntax on top of/for phantom types and write a monad system with transformers (via the macro system - think Lisp not C). This was back before Monads were cool in the regular community but very old hat in the haskell community.
What they are doing with version 2 is even more impressive and they are now sponsored by JetBrains.
F# is an excellent language* if you are doing Windows programming right now, you would be doing yourself a disservice not to look at it due to preoptimized worries. The language source is available , hacked on and ahead of Microsoft's version in certain aspects. In the case of a dumping, the community is talented and F# generates IL, unless C# is abandoned there is really nothing to worry about.
* I'm experimenting with intelligent, data based programming with a mix of Steffen Forkmann's JSON schema inference + ConceptNet + custom query syntax + embedded prolog + machine learning.
No. There was some FUD that because they didn't do things like rewriting Office in C# they weren't committed. Because rewriting 100 million lines of C++ just to prove a point would be such a good investment in time.
What they are doing with version 2 is even more impressive and they are now sponsored by JetBrains.
F# is an excellent language* if you are doing Windows programming right now, you would be doing yourself a disservice not to look at it due to preoptimized worries. The language source is available , hacked on and ahead of Microsoft's version in certain aspects. In the case of a dumping, the community is talented and F# generates IL, unless C# is abandoned there is really nothing to worry about.
* I'm experimenting with intelligent, data based programming with a mix of Steffen Forkmann's JSON schema inference + ConceptNet + custom query syntax + embedded prolog + machine learning.