Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and has a rich history in the general purpose programming world. You remember SOAP, right? Don was one of the Gang
of Four who designed SOAP. Don was also instrumental in the design and implementation of WCF. Don is currently building a…
In Chapter 4, Dr. Meijer teaches us about the art and practice of defining functions. Functions can be defined using conditional expressions and in Haskell conditional expressions must always have an else clause. Functions can also be defined using guarded equations and pattern matching. You will…
In Chapter 3, Dr. Meijer explores types and classes in Haskell. A type is a collection of related values and in Haskell every well-formed expression has a type. Using type inference, these types are automatically calculated at run time. Ifexpression e returns a type t, then e is of type t, e :: t. A…
In Chapter 2, Dr. Meijer introduces Haskell syntax and notation (via a Haskell implementation called Hugs, to be precise, which is based on Haskell 98) and we learn about the Haskell syntax that represents the fundamental construct of functional programming:functions. It's not like you're used…
Welcome to a new technical series on Channel 9 folded into a different kind of 9 format: C9 Lectures. These are what you think they are, lectures. They are not conversational in nature (like most of what you're used to on 9), but rather these pieces are entirely focused on education,…
Software Developer extraordinaire and language compiler geek Wes Dyer and programming language design guru and LINQ co-creator Erik Meijer dig into the Reactive Framework (Rx). This is part 2 of 2. See part 1
here.Here, Erik and Wes continue their discussion on the core ideas behind Rx. Rx is…
You've already learned a great deal about Erik Meijer's latest programming creation, Rx, right here on Channel 9 (here
and
here, to be precise). Well, wouldn't it be great to get the two key minds behind Rx in one place with one whiteboard? Yes, of course it would! Enter…
This is a very special episode of
Expert to Expert. We were very fortunate to get some time with renowned computer scientist and Microsoft Technical Fellow Butler Lampson. Butler's impact
on general purpose computing is profound. Personal computing as it exists today is in part the result…
Microsoft Research recently announced the availability, under
Academic Licensing, of
Dryad, an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs.
A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of…
Microsoft Research recently announced the availability, under
Academic Licensing, of
Dryad, an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs. A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of…