F#

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…

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

Tomas Petricek, a PhD student at University of Cambridge focusing on programming models, teaches us about one of his favorite programming languages, F#. The main topic is programming data with F#. You'll learn about Type Providers and Tomas will show how you can easily call REST APIs from F# using…

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#?…

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…

I was lucky enough to catch up with Don Syme at TechED Developer 2007. I'm a big fan of F# and it's great to see that a product team is being formed to bring this powerful functional language into the official .NET family. Joining in this conversation are F# master Robert Pickering and…

Teaching programming language concepts with F#, part 2 By Peter Sestoft, Professor IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.In this second part, Peter finishes the first "demo" lecture of the F#-based programming language course (started in part 1, found here:…

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…

While in Cambridge recently to interview Tim Harris and Simon Peyton-Jones about the great work they're doing on Software Transactional Memory (STM), I got to meet some of the folks in the Machine Learning group (Christopher Bishop leads the ML research team and is a leading figure in the…