> F#'s pattern matching for example would be put to good use in log analysis. No, it would not. It was not intended for text analysis. Even regexps would be be

> F#'s pattern matching for example would be put to good use in log analysis. No, it would not. It was not intended for text analysis. Even regexps would be better at this than pattern matching. > I like the ability of C# to define arbitrarily complex cyclic data structures with clean code. It's difficult to be concise when one writes C# in F#. It's like in the old saying that "good programmer can write in Fortran in any language". The author apparently didn't grasp what functional programming is about.