Evans, Jeffrey (IT) wrote:

> >It may interest people to know that C# is to add inferred types,
> >lambda expressions with limited type inference, some other functional
> >features.  Unfortunately the only reference is a M$ Word document(!),
> >but it's interesting reading nevertheless:
> >
> >http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/future/default.aspx
> >
> >Rich.
> 
> 
> For that matter, F# has been around on the .NET platform for a little
> while now.
> 
> http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.aspx

There's also Nemerle :

    http://www.nemerle.org/

which is a cross between C# and Ocaml. I uses infered types and has
Ocaml-like pattern matching.

Erik
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