Wow, this is the worst article I've seen on hacker news front page in a very long time.

C# has a tremendous potential for functional programming. There's some features that make a pure functional style easier and prettier in haskell, but C# has plenty of potential.

The title is total link bait. I clicked because I know there are things to write about - like pervasive nulls and mutable-by-default variables to begin with. There really are things to complain about! But the actual contents of the article are infuriatingly obtuse.

The fact that 39 people found this interesting in 2012 just demonstrates how ineffective the entire hacker news concept really is.