An F# Tutorial with Don Syme (#2 of 4)

David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, about F# in part 3 of this video series. Don, who created F#, demonstrates the language with live coding examples in F# Interactive, focussing on Windows Azure.
Links:
• Microsoft F# Developer Center, http://www.fsharp.net
• Don Syme’s blog, https://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/
F# Async to the max ...
F# is definitely worth learning for many reasons but especially so for cloud computing.
I am using F# Agents (mailbox processors) and Async processing in Azure worker roles. The code ends up being much shorter, cleaner and more understandable.
F# may appear difficult at first but stick with it and I can assure you that your effort will pay off handsomely.