No, but if it came in the standard install there's nothing I can do about it save spending hours and hours auditing my install. I don't do that kind of thing nowadays.
That makes sense when one is used to the Visual Studio organization of solutions and projects, with some main method somewhere being the entry point, unless it's a WCF service or somesuch that gets run via a service manager.
I only used F# at its command line, fsi.exe, to give me commandline access to .NET for exploration, testing, and munging data. Over time, I built up quite a library of usable functions that I'd have the fsi.exe program pre-load when I kicked it off, leaving me at the prompt with all .NET namespaces and my code ready and accessible.
Once you get access to your database's data, it's easy to write queries against it and then play with the data. I could then port the F# processing bits that worked into my C# projects as necessary, but it was far easier to do it that way than to write the logic deep within complex multi-project solution files, where the various classes are spread throughout the projects' files.
I don't know what C# has for an interactive prompt nowadays, but F#'s commandline environment, via its fsi.exe, was a revelation back then. It prevented having to have entire solutions to contain test projects to explore different areas of the vast .NET framework, especially when just learning how to use specific methods or objects.
I don't doubt it, but I don't run Microsoft software any more. I've seen enough embrace, extend, and extinguish in my lifetime to not depend on them for my code's execution environment.
My current work needs nothing the .NET environment provides that I can't use python's standard libraries to get done, or bash and C if I need to.
But I'm lucky to no longer be in a corporate environment, so I don't need to consume commercial services, which was much easier using WCF within .NET. Back in my previous life, constructing n-tiered services on top of SqlServer using WCF was slick, indeed.
To any who are interested in how to construct such n-tiered applications simply but securely and precisely, I highly suggest Juval Lowy's IDesign system. He had three specific videos that I watched three or four times each until I understood his distillation of his vast expertise. Of course, Mr. Lowy is one of the co-designers of WCF, which was an excellent bit of tech.
Plus, I'm not going to be downloading, configuring, or running any separate code at runtime. The project is the project, it's going to process some files, communicate with some services, and communicate with the UI, if any.
If I need to consume a service, it should be defined such that I manifest the interface module (perhaps via WCF) and then connect to it progressively from stub to ever greater functionality in test to final implementation. Trying to write a program to do all that at runtime is not sensible, IMO.
Metaprogramming via reflection, however, was useful for exploring the vast .NET framework, and I used those to great effect, especially in exploring .NET's various UI frameworks (WinForms and Silverlight), but never to create code at runtime via the emit functionality. No, that's my job: to emit code that is tested and works and is comprehensible.
Curried functions combined with that magnificent pipe operator, overlaid on the .NET runtime. Don Syme et al knocked it out of the park.
It's the one programming language that changed how I think about programming.
I'm only talking about the version before type providers. Then it got messy.
Before that, we could (and I did) recompile fsi.exe to do some custom prompt manipulation. It was a slog, but it worked, but then Microsoft faded from my life. Still, that early version (I believe 2.0) F# is just magnificent.
It is absolutely the truth that a liar will automatically have a difficult time knowing when another person is being truthful. They will both automatically tend to believe the person is lying and not know how to recognize the signs that a person is being completely truthful.
It's the opposite of an honest person being more easily conned. It's not in their expectations, because of their own lack of devious ways.
That's part of the reason that dictators rise to power on the backs of the gullible -- most people are just not that utterly ruthless, dishonest, or mean-spirited. All these GOP folks being fired and deported by Trump are just incapable of comprehending either how vile the man is or how stupid they are (which is why he targeted them with his cons).
And America would be in a better situation right now if more Americans had their heads out of their asses enough to know that that is a bad, bad dude, who cares about one and only one person: himself and those that serve him.
All that said, the first step to recognizing liars is to be brutally truthful, especially with yourself. The worst lies we tell are the ones we tell ourselves.
[ETA: ps: I love you, my friend. Keep shining your light!]
The Great(est) Command(ment) is to love God with all our being, and then to love our neighbors as ourself, not more, not less.
Being kind, generous, forgiving, helpful, and compassionate are some of the ways we can love people, and should, in order to be a good person who reaps happiness in their life. God does not force us to do this, and freely allows us to choose each virtue's corresponding vice, if we wish, instead.
God would, however, prefer us to treat each other well and form loving societies, but our ignorance of what good even is, as well as or selfishnesses that rebel against lovingly curious attitudes and behaviors, are preventing our moving towards such positive self-evolution.
We all have the choice to embark on becoming filled with love towards each other; a person does not need God's help to choose to be good by embracing a more virtuous life that cares for others, but the Creator just might be essential for our becoming actually transformed into a really, really good person. In fact, connecting with the Ultimate Loner just might be an integral part of what is possible in the human experience.
And I'm using "just might" as a big ol' hint that that is actually the truth of our reality, which is exactly what it is, my friends.
The choice to seek, learn, and believe the truth is everyone's human right. We each exercise that right every moment of every day, for good or ill, in loving care or selfish callousness.
Yeah, well, Zeppelin were exceptional in perhaps all ways.
Robert Plant was an unknown just singing around with perhaps the greatest fricking drummer of all-time (at least legendary, for sure). And Plant is also just incredible.
John Paul Jones was a multi-instrumentalist session player of renown, and Jimmy Page was already famous.
It's one of those stories where the very first time they played together they just looked around at each other, nodded, and knew that it was special.
Plus, they did the 2nd album while touring the first one (within a year, IIRC).
And, wow, that second album has "What Is And What Should Never Be" and, my all-time favorite, "Ramble On". Just epic. And then, later, "Kashmir", "The Rain Song", the list goes on and on and on.
And they also back up my point that alcohol is a pox upon humanity. RIP Bonzo. The alcohol-encouraging cultures on Earth are insane, but the ones that forbid it tend to be even worse in many ways. What a troubled bunch of kinda-monkeys we are, huh? Common sense just ain't very common.
A person/group has their entire life to make their first album, but usually only a year or two to make their next one.
Being able to conjure creativity on-demand and/or under deadline -- self-imposed or not -- seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
My opinion is that perhaps 10% of artists continue to produce equal or greater work as their career goes forward, depending on their life circumstances, how they handle their success or lack thereof, and how their label treats them.
They seem to be like programmers and Dunning-Kruger test subjects: 10% are exceptional, talented and humble craftspeople that produce work that is enjoyed by others as the years press on. The rest either only had a few good ideas or are such true artists that their explorations move them away from the kinds of art that their fans or critics enjoyed in their earlier work.