Comment by pjmlp
12 hours ago
Microsoft management has decided CLR has a new meaning, C# Language Runtime.
VB, C++/CLI and F# are only there because existing customers.
They have always behaved as if it had been a mistake to promote F# from research project into VS 2010 as an official language.
Since then it has been something that the teams never knew how to sell to the .NET customer base, pivoting from being only libraries for C# and VB, write unit tests, Web development, data analysis, whatever might make it.
However it was Standard ML, Miranda, Hope, OCaml and Haskell that lead the way, we aren't still fully there.
> Microsoft management has decided CLR has a new meaning, C# Language Runtime. > VB, C++/CLI and F# are only there because existing customers.
Oh, I think we need a citation for these claims.