> > ...he has put F# on the back burner.
>
> I did that once. Very painful.
>

It was painful at first, but I found a way to relieve some of my
withdrawal symptoms. F# is mostly just a Microsoft copy of OCaml, so I
switched to the real thing.

http://caml.inria.fr/

If you're still having a hard time dropping F#, I recommend that you
also give OCaml a try. OCaml is a very expressive language, and I have
not yet seen an OCaml program crash or hang. As a nice bonus, OCaml is
2-4 times faster than F#, nearly the same speed as C but without all
the hassle.

Anyone up for an old Microsoft promotional video from when they were
copying MacOS2?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239&