Is F# a major or minor consideration for Microsoft?
InternetNews | at | by Mike
A proprietary version of a meta language (ML) in development by Microsoft researchers is causing quite a stir in the developer community. The issue at hand is whether or not Microsoft is trying to co-opt another programming language for its own purposes, which is what some experts perceived the company did when it crafted C++ and C#.
Called F#, the ML is designed to solve extensibility issues and problems on the .NET Framework. Meta languages are used for writing tools and compilers, programs that translate source code into object code. The compiler produces an intermediary form called object code. Object code is often the same as a computer's machine language, such as C or FORTRAN.