My opponent gave me that link: http://logicaloptimizer.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-microsofts-experiments-with-...

I enjoy the article you linked but I sort of skimmed it because it was a little boring, however its main point seem to be: 1. Ghostbusters. 2. Artificial intelligence is useless [1] 3. Listen to Anders! [2] An interesting sample: "Anders Hejlsberg: Well, the best Software Transactional Memory implementations are still sitting at around 200% to 400% and that's even in best cases actually and still with Software Transactional Memory it's still, in a sense, it's still a problem of synchronization and shared state which... Carl Franklin: It's just under the lower level. Anders Hejlsberg: Some would argue it's t h e wrong way to look at the problem in the beginning. We shouldn't have the shared state to begin with. Richard Campbell: Right. Hat guy from xkcd (Enter stage left): But don't you see that Haskell has no shared state. That's exactly why STM is so great for doing concurrency in Haskell!" (I maybe edited that a little there.) Ta ta, Johnny [1] Artificial intelligence is pointless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvZBtJ-ncEM [2] The internet audio talkshow http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=541 I found this transcript on google. Server seems to give of fake 404 pages, so have to hotlink :( http://perseus.franklins.net/dotnetrocks_0541_anders_hejlsberg.pdf