I have a very similar background/opinion. Almost all of my professional work has been on the *nix stack and I generally like Ruby. During a brief stint in Micro

I have a very similar background/opinion. Almost all of my professional work has been on the *nix stack and I generally like Ruby. During a brief stint in Microsoft-land I found myself super impressed with C#. First class functions, type inference, anonymous types/functions and LINQ make for a really nice general purpose language. Its really a shame its mired in the Microsoft toolchain.