Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
 > Since when is .NET actually important?

It's Microsoft's modern API to its OS.  Programming for a Microsoft 
environment without .NET is becoming increasingly more difficult.

 > AFAIK, absolutely nobody on Earth
 > actually uses it for any purpose whatsoever.

That's certainly not true and indeed C# or VB.NET are today most used 
languages with functional programming constructs.  Certainly more 
visible and popular than Haskell or Lisp ever will.  That's why the praise.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like Microsoft nor .NET.

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