F#

At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. Here, Erik interviews…

Abstract:Jerry Nixon and Matt Harrington welcome Evelyne Viegas, Don Syme and Kenji Takeda to the show as they discuss Try F#.org  - a new website designed to help you learn how to use F# in your applications as well how F#’s unique capabilities can best work for you. [3:15] What is Try F#?…

In this episode of 10-4, we take a quick look at F#, a new addition to the family of managed programming languages in Visual Studio 2010. F# is a multi-paradigm programming language. Though its focus is at functional programming, it's capable of producing object-oriented code like other .NET…

Last week Don Syme joined me for an F# university tour here in Denmark. The final stop on the tour was at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (mdcc.dk) for an open TechTalk on F# and functional programming on the .NET platform. To make this talk as broadly available as possible, we just…

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…

How will imperative programming languages evolve to suit the needs of developers in the age of Concurrency and Composability? What role can programming languages play in enabling true composability? What are the implications of LINQ on the furture of managed  (CLS-based) and…

With the release of VS 2010 Beta 1 today, F# is officially a part of the in-box VS family in the sense that it ships with VS 2010 as a first class language for use in building your .NET projects that require the power and flexibility of the functional approach to program…

First a tease... Try F# demonstrates the power of F# to solve real-world analytical programming and information-rich problems by providing a web experience to help you learn the F# language, create programs, and share information—quickly and easily. You all know how much I like "learning…

Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. F# 3.0 brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform. F# Type Providers and F# Queries greatly simplify data-rich analytical programming, allowing programmers to easily access and…

Lang.NEXT 2012 is a cross-industry conference for programming language designers and implementers held on the MIcrosoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, April 2-4, 2012. With three days of talks, panels and discussion on leading programming language work from industry and research, Lang.NEXT is…