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aaronblohowiak on Sept 12, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why F#?

"- You have to spend lots of $$ to be able to program in F#."

"- You can run your code only on a Windows machine (reliably.)"

Why not mono?

teamonkey on Sept 12, 2009 [–]

Even without Mono you can download the compiler for free.

On Windows you can even use it with the stripped-down Visual Studio shell. http://www.11011.net/fsharp-in-visual-studio-express

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