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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You briefly mentioned how generics in Java works, which I knew, but failed to give any examples of why it mattered much performance-wise. I'd pay more attention to things like function call overhead.

Benchmarks are pretty much the only thing we have to guide us in performance questions. It's hard to do right, and you can skew the results pretty easily. Still, reviewing enough benchmark tests from differently associated third-parties would give a better basis than doing the tests myself and risking screwing up, and is certainly more reliable than just reading blurbs from the company webpages and going by gut feeling.

As for the study... Maybe I'll skim it later, but really, look at the language used...
a case study that proves the superiority of the Common Language Runtime as a target for imperative programming language compilers
The author list does not really indicate a group either, though it's reassuring to hear you call him a real computer scientist, as opposed to all the fake ones.
No huge surprise that
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