[thecoffman]

I have a very similar background/opinion. Almost all of my professional work has been on the *nix stack and I generally like Ruby. During a brief stint in Microsoft-land I found myself super impressed with C#. First class functions, type inference, anonymous types/functions and LINQ make for a really nice general purpose language. Its really a shame its mired in the Microsoft toolchain.

[pjonesdotca]

Having tried both C# and Go (both having functions as first class citizens), I'll chose Go.

Mono always seems to be behind the M$ release of .NET and I'd rather not bother.