SUMMARY
Today’s .NET platform provides one of the best possible constellations for hybrid software development. Originally a strong, modern and newly developed object oriented platform, .NET has taken major steps for years now in the functional direction. Microsoft F# is a fully supported hybrid language on the .NET platform, the development of which has influenced platform decisions since 2002. At the other end of the spectrum, albeit not all too far away, there’s C#, a newly developed language strongly based in object orientation, that has been equally influenced by functional ideas almost from its invention. At the core of any program written in either language there’s the .NET Framework itself, arguably the strongest set of underlying libraries that has ever been available for application development.
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