F#

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…

Tao Liu, an engineer on the F# team, explains (and demonstrates) the importance and value of design patterns for F#. Many programmers who work on large or complex software systems are accustomed to employing design patterns in the development of these systems.  For experienced C#…

Teaching programming language concepts with F#, part 1 By Peter Sestoft, Professor IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.In this first part, Peter introduces the curriculum, lecture plan and lecture notes for the course "Programs as data" that uses the functional programming concepts in…

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Jeff Burtoft discuss the week's top developer news, including; [1:02] Visual Studio Launch Event (If you missed it) [2:42] Windows Store now open to all developers in 120 markets (Ted Dworkin) [3:52] Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop is…

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…

Jason Olson is a programming language evangelist in addition to his duties as a managed (.NET) tools evangelist. You know him from C9. He's a long time Niner and has always been passionate about languages. I've known Jason for a long time and it's great to see him take his passionate…

After a long day of sessions at Emerging Languages Camp 2010, I caught up with two of the day's presenters, Clojure creator Rich Hickey (you've met Rich before in an Expert to Expert episode with Brian Beckman) and F# compiler developer Joe Pamer. Clojure is a dynamic language that…

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…

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by Clint Rutkas and we discuss: Clint talks about MS 101 (0 - 1:00) SQL Server 2008 RC0 is now available (and we don't know why some teams start with a zero based array and others don't) (1:00 - 2:30) CTP of Project codename…

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…