David Chappell wrote a VERY interesting article on use of SOA.
read here
Right, well I just discovered F#. No, its not Fortan.Net.
check out the 3min intro
http://www.secretgeek.net/fsharp_3mins.asp
also wiki:
http://strangelights.com/fsharp/Wiki/default.aspx
This guy is so nuts it might actually work, these msdn guys have too much time on their hands ;)
http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlem/archive/2006/09/05/740632.aspx