Don Syme: Introduction to F#, Part 1

Posted By: Charles | Sep 13th, 2006 @ 11:18 AM | 52,191 Views | 8 Comments
Mike Hall caught up with Don Syme recently and recorded a few interviews covering Don's favorite programming language: F#.  F#???

Don has done many great things over there in MSR Cambridge including creating everybody's favorite C# feature, Generics. Well, he also developed (with his team) the "research" programming language, F#.

"F# is a programming language that provides the much sought-after combination of type safety, performance and scripting, with all the advantages of running on a high-quality, well-supported modern runtime system."

Check out Don's blog!
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#Sep 13th, 2006 @ 12:26 PM
DuNuNuBatman
DuNuNuBatman

PART 2!!! WHERE'S PART 2??? i WANT TO SEE IT!!!

Alright, I can wait a bit... <chants>Demo, Demo</chants>

#Sep 13th, 2006 @ 4:10 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
Part 2 will air tomorrow and will contain lots of F# demo code (for those who have expressed dismay that there are no samples in part one, which is, as titled, an introduction....)
C
#Sep 14th, 2006 @ 6:12 AM
stevo_
stevo_
Human after all
Heh, my head just explodes at most of the samples I've seen. I'm sure they wrote them as abstract as possible without actually explaining 'what the input and output and use of the code is for' is on purpose. But I'm sure this is very useful for some instances where traditional OOP just makes it a nightmare or impossible.
#Sep 14th, 2006 @ 3:47 PM
coonsta
coonsta
It's hard to "get" F# the first time you see it because it is so different from C#. I encourage you to download the  F# compiler, play with the samples, and try to write something with it. Feel free to send questions my way, or to The HubFS-- http://cs.hubfs.net , or to the F# mailing lists.
#Sep 16th, 2006 @ 5:30 AM
DuNuNuBatman
DuNuNuBatman
Charles wrote:
no samples in part one, which is, as titled, an introduction....
C


... tease
#Feb 26th, 2008 @ 7:34 AM
Geek1ab
Geek1ab
Has this video been removed?  Whenever I try to watch it or download it, I get an error from media player telling me that the file can't be found.  I can watch other videos (e.g. the recent interview with Don Syme), but I can't get to this one or "Introduction to F#, Part 2".

I know I'm probably the only guy out there that hasn't seen this video, but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
#Feb 26th, 2008 @ 11:15 AM
Yankee
Yankee
Same problem here Sad

Can someone make this video available?
Thanks!
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