F#

So anyway I have begun my foray into F#.  Because I plan to use .net in my next project I think it will be fun to learn F# in addition to C# and use both languges in the project.  To this end I just ordered Expert F#.  Knowing /prog/ is infinitely more expert then me: 

what does /prog/ think about .net?
what does /prog/ think about F# (ocaml)?
What type of tasks are better to be performed in F# vs C# (Math type tasks heavy)?

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>targeting one OS family (Windows), and many of the design decisions they made reflect this

The strange thing is that MS admits the Windows API is way too convoluted. Their design descion was to abstract the Windows API to something more manageable.

So its hard to argue that MS is polluting the .Net framework with Windows specific implementations to make it unuseable on other platforms.

But you are contratdicting yourself:
>Even if a third party creates a .Net implementation for some other OS, it's not going to get first-party support and won't affect the decisions MS makes in the future.
Contradicts:
>This is why people make independent design groups for these things -- to keep any one vendor's interests from clouding the overall design with decisions specific to their own implementation.

Either MS makes it avaible on other platforms, or removes itself and gives you the resources to do it yourself for a platform. It makes no sense to do both. You seem to not agree with the former as being a good path, and apprently so does MS because they went with the latter.