MjDascombe's Journal: Slashdot Pricks vs. Language Selection Karma Whores

Have we become such a bunch of pro-linux, anti-MS cretins that we dont even read the articles any more?

I mean, this guy is knocking Microsofts new language, F#, which on it's own is perfectly valid. However, when the means of his attack are that Microsoft languages are MS-centric, and should not be encouraged for teaching, especially at universities, he shows off what a prick he evidently is.

Not only is F# the most blatent re-invention of Standard/Meta ML I've seen in a while, it's quite a good one. It just so happens that ML is a perfect language for educating people about recursion, and one of the least proprietary languages around - it's concepts are a lot more flexible and portable than those of, say, GCC.

However, this prick is no doubt uninformed about the correct choice of educational languages, since this, only his second post makes no reference at all to any concrete arguments, just vaugue anti-MS sentiments.

By all means knock Microsoft's/University's choice of languages, but have you actually worked at either, or are you just some jumped up little shit having another go at Microsoft because of their name, rather than their current (stolen) idea?