Office 2007 F# becomes a first-class citizen

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Microsoft has additional a new language towards the stable that may be supported by its Visual Studio advancement platform.The most recent member with the family members is F#,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus, the hybrid functional/object-oriented language developed by Microsoft Research. (Ars Technica has an virtually layperson-understandable definition of functional programming languages, in case you want far more detail.)Exactly when Microsoft will add F# support to Visual Studio is not obvious. All that Microsoft Developer Division Chief Soma Somasegar said on his weblog final week that Microsoft is productizing F# for a variety of reasons. A expanding variety of the concepts underlying useful languages are producing their way into other programming languages. In addition,Office Standard 2010, practical and dynamic programming languages more and more are finding their methods onto computer-science agendas at various universities,Office 2007, as Somasegar noted:“A number of laptop or computer science departments around the world teach useful programming languages today. We believe that through F# and languages such as IronPython and IronRuby we can help offer students and educators choices beyond the current mainstream and enable the use of these languages across the curriculum. This helps educators have the option to use Visual Studio as a consistent tool set from course to course.”Heck,Office 2007 Enterprise Key, even Google — at least Dominic Cooney,Office Pro Plus 2007 Key, a software engineer there within the Kirkland offices — is using F# to program.F# is one of a family of “Sharp” languages under development by Microsoft and others. Wonder if any with the other Sharps will get Visual Studio assistance.