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Doesn't pay my bills.. yet however thinking about a startup.. now if I only had an idea.... 
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You are not the only one. I also only code for a hobby, although I do have one project that does bring in a little cash. So far it has brought in about $2000 in the past five years.
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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If you check the previous thread ("SQL isn't a programming language") there are a lot more of us with you than we think... 
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So what do you do to pay the bills?
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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While C# is definitely my cash cow, and I LOVE using it...I have to say I'm very intrigued by F#. In my limited time using it, I find it quite refreshing for small projects, and I can see it having tremendous potential as a scripting language. I don't ever think it would replace C# as my language of choice (or the language that pays the bills), but I can indeed see F# becoming a serious contender for my time as soon as I get VS2010.
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I have to agree...
Also, does anyone else notice a striking similarity to Python?
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It feels similar to a lot of dynamic languages...and even feels like LISP at times. It feels like C# did back in the early days...like it was a blend of the best of the best (C++, Java, VB, etc.), without the useless fluff.
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What the F# is F#?
I feel Im getting old, not in the physical respect and certainly noy in the arithmetic way
But those new languages...
In my time I have learned C/C++ VB6 and java but always worked with something else. Always being the one who should take care of the old system until the new stuff was mature and stable or bridging the old and new stuff together.
The new stuff NEVER emerged... There was never recources enough or it was just not doable to migrate the old system to a new platform/language etc.
I always wanted to use the meethods and tools learned. Not because it was cool but because it would solve the problems with minimum effort and leave a managable system behind. Well documented and easy to maintain and scale up.
I have learned to build miracles with chewingum and old socks. I have keept the old smoking heaps of rubish alive and going. The future never arived, it was there all along. In the moment of triumf, of the joy of writing the next piece of software to save the customer some salary...
But, you know what they say: you are only as good as your last project...
Java
C#
Gupta Team Developer 3.1
VC++ 2003
Oracle 8i79i
W2K-XP
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I agree completely, (I have 30 years of programming experience) and I experienced similar situations.
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Jon Rista wrote: I can see it having tremendous potential as a scripting language.
WHy do you say that? F# is a compiled, statically typed language and is more suitable as a replacement of C# than a scripting language. If you are looking for a scripting language that runs on .NET platform, consider IronScheme, IronPython or IronRuby.
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Because of #light mode, perhapse? And it doesn't have to be compiled...like any language, its a set of rules...syntax, semantics, etc. and it will be an open standard like C#. Wouldn't be that hard to write a parser for it and interperate F# "script" if a scripting language was needed for an application.
Also, F# will never be a replacement for C#...at best a compliment. It wasn't designed to solve the same kinds of problems C# was designed for.
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Jon Rista wrote: Because of #light mode, perhapse?
What about #light mode? It merely removes some OCaml syntax.
Jon Rista wrote: Wouldn't be that hard to write a parser for it and interperate F# "script" if a scripting language was needed for an application.
No, but the same can be said for C#.
Jon Rista wrote: F# will never be a replacement for C#...
Unfortunatelly that is probably true, but not because they cover different use case scenarios (they don't) but because people are used to their ways. Also, there is already a lot of legacy C# code out there.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: What about #light mode? It merely removes some OCaml syntax.
Which makes it about the perfect "weight" for script. 
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: No, but the same can be said for C#.
True enough, but with C#, you need to have a full class at some point. With F#, you can keep it light weight and simple. Both "could" be used as script...F# lends itself better to it.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: not because they cover different use case scenarios (they don't)
C# is an (imperative) OO language, and primarily covers the scenario where we define how to solve problems algorithmically. F# is a (declarative) functional language, and covers the scenario where we define what we need and what to do, but not specifically how to do it. How to do it vs. what to do. The latter is ideal from a scripting standpoint where your most probably automating a system that contains the "how to", and your just telling that system "what to do".
(C# offers some functional capabilities via Lambdas, type initializers, and type inference...but those limited functional capabilities can't replace F#.)
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Rather than deal with the largely arbitrary class hierarchy of .NET, I'd prefer to count parentheses in LISP or track a Forth stack in my head.
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Severian@Severian.org wrote: largely arbitrary class hierarchy of .NET
Largely arbitrary? How so? 
/ravi
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Care to explain how the .NET framework class hierarchies are "arbitrary"?
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Jon Rista wrote: Care to explain how the .NET framework class hierarchies are "arbitrary"?
Anyone who likes LISP is obviously a troll.
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LISP has its place and solves certain problems very well. I don't particularly like its syntax (rather I think its atrocious), but it does have its place.
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I'm sure you're correct. My post was in jest mostly. I don't know enough about LISP to make a real judgment on it.
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Well, perhapse this would help shed some light (and humor) on the subject:
http://xkcd.com/297/
http://xkcd.com/224/
http://xkcd.com/312/
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 I like the second one the best.
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"My god, its full if 'car's"
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I don't know about "largely", but there are some concerns. Like why ArgumentNullException and InvalidArgumentException don't agree on which order the parameter name and message should be in. 
(That's the only one that comes to mind at the moment.)
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Two separate teams worked on each exception and they never spoke to each other 
Sunny Ahuwanya
"The beauty of the desert is that it hides a well somewhere"
-- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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Thank you, Captain Obvious.
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