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If this is the September CTP rather than, say, a v1.0 release, then it's not really an unveiling - there have been previous CTPs for months / year(s).

I thought my download/install/say oooh/delete was cursory, but whoo, he really does kick the tyres, doesn't he?

"One of the first things I noticed is the use of the let keyword to assign variables"

No no no! They're not variables because they don't vary!

(and the shell doesn't work without compilation, it does on-the-fly compilation - or it wouldn't work. And you don't need to wait to find out about it's efficiency, it's been benchmarked loads, it runs on the .Net VM taking advantage of all that it provides. Pattern matching lends itself to data analysis? How vague and useless is that claim? And you don't need to force it on a client, it's a .net language, hello? It runs on the .net framework! "The previous sample demonstrates output via the printfn function" hello redundant commenting that tells you exactly what the code tells you! Gah!)

;_;