worth learning f#?

[DSW]

So I got vs2010 installed with the intent of checking out the sharepoint tools, but they didn't include them

Soo... does anyone think that it's going to be worth learning f#? I've done functional languages before (Haskell) and I know Microsoft are putting a little effort into making people aware of it... but I can't see it appearing on any job specs( ever tbh). On the flip side its going to be a niche skill so would probably demand a premium. However I'm also guessing that the first jobs to appear will want the usual 4 years+ experience!

[HairyArsedBloke]

F# - old hat!

This morning spam from M$ goes on about Axum being the next thing.

[FSM with Cheddar]

I going to learn it, purely because it looks interesting. Never done an functional programming before, so will be good to get another perspective.

[DimPrawn]

F#ck that.

C#nts.

[zeitghost]

http://www.fortran.com/F/

You know it makes sense.

[VectraMan]

I going to learn it, purely because it looks interesting. Never done an functional programming before, so will be good to get another perspective.

I had to do some at university, and I never want to ever again.

[bogeyman]

I had to do some at university, and I never want to ever again.

Functional programming is one of those things that is always on the cusp, and will revolutionise the way we make software, but it never actually will.

Leave it to the baldy, beardy old comp-sci professors who can't even tie their own ties (or even shoe laces, in extreme cases).

[HairyArsedBloke]

Weren't these supposed to take over when we moved on to non Von Neumann architecture computers?

I suppose they will have to wait there turn until after the phase when UNIX takes over from Windows on the desktop.

[bogeyman]

Weren't these supposed to take over when we moved on to non Von Neumann architecture computers?

I suppose they will have to wait there turn until after the phase when UNIX takes over from Windows on the desktop.

Old 'John Von' must must be laughing his ethereal socks off.

Fact is, except for very narrow, specialist and real-time processing jobs, Von Neumann's architecture has seen us through more than half a century of computerised data processing.

It just works.

On the subject of UNIX. UNIX and its derivatives have always been the 'also-ran' in every major IT sector, ever since its inception.

Don't get me wrong, I quite like UNIX, but it hasn't ever set the world alight or transformed the industry like MVS, VMS or even MS-DOS and Windows did.

It's always there in the background, hanging on by its badly bitten fingernails.

[HairyArsedBloke]

UNIX is like bubonic plague; it's been with us forever and will be in the future. It's only the higher standards we have in the modern world that stops it getting a hold again. The biggest threat coming from India and China.