Don Syme: What's new in F# - Asynchronous Workflows (and welcome to the .NET family!) | Charles

esoteric
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Another great F# / Don Syme et al interview. Smiley

Now you need the equipment to be able to do 2 hour interviews, Charles. Big Smile

Escamillo

Nice video (a little noisy in the background, but what can you do? Tongue Out ).

I love all F# content. Keep it up! Cool

Charles
Welcome Change

Sorry about the audio quality. Perhaps it's time for me to invest in some pro audio gear? This interview was rather spontaneous - it took place in a hotel, near the hotel restaurant. I had to keep this one short given what time it was and the fact that there were people waiting for me to join them for dinner (hungry people are often not also super patient people) Smiley

You will see more functional programming content on Channel 9, including, of course, more Don. Next time Dr. Syme's in town I'll try and grab him (and Erik Meijer) for a heady conversation on F# and functional programming generally.

I do have another functional programming treat for you that will play over the upcoming weekend (for those in the States, that's Thanksgiving weekend (starting on Thursday, Nov 22, so eat turkey, relax and learn)).

C

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Tomas blog is at http://tomasp.net/ - I had the chance to chat with him a little bit after the TechEd was over. We were driving back home together in the subway. It's truly amazing to see how much passion these guys have for F# Smiley

littleguru
<3 Seattle

esoteric wrote:
Now you need the equipment to be able to do 2 hour interviews, Charles.

Once you see the battery on Charles camera you would never ask this question again. It's a huge thing! 4 hours of currency! He would be able to do way longer interviews... but as he said there might be other coincidences why the interviews are shorter.

Great to see Don Syme! He's a cool dude and F# is awesome. F# is really worth it checking it out.

jdh30

Awesome interview: thanks to everyone for doing it!

Asynchronous workflows just made it to the top of my list of exciting new F# developments to learn about... Smiley

JChung2006

You should definitely check out Tomas' blog, which littleguru linked above. He has an article with a code sample library for implementing asynchronous workflows-like code in C#, as well as a nice set of articles introducing F#.

As interesting as F# is, I would still love to see LISP or SCHEME running on the CLR/DLR. I would find it absolutely delightful if a user-friendly dialect of LISP became the most popular software development language 5 years from now, with versions to generate CIL and JVM (and maybe Dalvik) bytecode.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

JChung2006 wrote:
You should definitely check out Tomas' blog, which littleguru linked above. He has an article with a code sample library for implementing asynchronous workflows-like code in C#, as well as a nice set of articles introducing F#.

As interesting as F# is, I would still love to see LISP or SCHEME running on the DLR. I would find it absolutely delightful if a user-friendly dialect of LISP became the most popular software development language 5 years from now.

F# is different from the DLR. The DLR is more a set of classes that allows you to run/create a dynamic language on the fly. You should check out the DLR LOLcode implementation to see how to implement a language for the DLR in ~15 hours!!

We asked/begged Martin Maly (who wrote LOLcode for TechEd) so long that he released it. I find LOLcode for DLR a neat example on showing how to implement your own language in the DLR. Smiley

JChung2006

Besides the dynamic language bits, which are nice, what is interesting about the DLR is that they are refactoring the CLR aka CoreCLR.