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How is Lisp related to F#, and is learning Lisp a useful leg up to F#?

This is the situation : I mostly program C# and have written types in it I don't want to lose. At the same time I would like to learn functional programming. The obvious answer of course is F#. But for everything apart from C# I use emacs as an editor, and I really would like to learn Lisp too. (Learn your editors/IDE's language yo...

What are the advantages of the WPF ToolBar?

I'm trying to decide whether I should create a simple StackPanel with Buttons on it, or whether I should use the WPF ToolBar class to contain these buttons (I am creating a simple toolbar). What are the pros and cons to using WPF's built-in ToolBar control? So far, these are the only advantages I have seen: The ToolBars can collapse...