F#

F# is Microsoft's first functional programming language to be included as one of Visual Studio's official set of languages. F# is a succinct, efficient, expressivefunctional/object-oriented programming language under joint development by Microsoft Developer Division and Microsoft Research.…

Chris Smith had a talk at the CodeMash conference in January 2010 titled “Being an Evil Genius with F# and .NET”.  Chris created a post about his talk and doing Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, and shooting missiles at people all with F#!  Here is a bit of his speech recognition…

Juan Chen and Nikhil Swamy, two researchers at the Research in Software Engineering group, present FINE, a new programming language for .NET.Software systems are governed by increasingly complex security policies. Ensuring that a system properly enforces its policy is hard. FINE is a…

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson explains and gives examples of lists in F#.  You can also learn more in the topic Lists (F#) Kathleen McGrathVisual Studio User Educationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/kathleenVisual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson explains and gives examples of discriminated unions in F#.    You can also learn more in the topic Discriminated Unions (F#)   Kathleen McGrathVisual Studio User Educationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Floating point values in F# can have associated units of measure, which are typically used to indicate length, volume, mass, and so on. The built-in type float takes an optional unit-of-measure parameter, written in angle brackets, in a similar way that types such as IEnumerable take a type…

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson, continues the discussion of patterns by talking about active patterns, which you can use to customize and extend F#’s pattern matching capabilities. Active patterns are an amazingly flexible language feature, and in this video we just scratch…

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson explains and gives examples of patterns in F# and explains the use of the match expression to control branching based on patterns in data. But first, a disclaimer Gordon wanted to make: “Regrettably, I have not been able to retrain myself yet to…

Microsoft Research describes F# as "a scripted/functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language". Combining all those aspects in one language is certainly not an easy task, but they've done a good job of it. F# is interesting both as a language to actually consider for your…

This video demonstrates some of the tasks described in Walkthrough: Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio.  I show you how to declare simple variables, write and test functions, and create tuples and lists.   Kathleen McGrath Visual Studio User Education