If pain is measured in keystrokes, then yeah.. functional C# might be somewhat painful. If you haven't tried it you might consider using F#. It seems to have t

If pain is measured in keystrokes, then yeah.. functional C# might be somewhat painful. If you haven't tried it you might consider using F#. It seems to have the best of both worlds. It's got a static type system with functional features, but also a very lightweight and beautiful syntax (heavily influenced by OCaml, fwiw).