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Scott Hanselman: The Rise of F#

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:01:02 GMT

ScottHa gives a good initial push to F# :)

Building an F# powered indexing system (part 2)

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

The second development chunk focuses on creating documents to index, and munging them into a format to hand off to an external library. There are examples of calling a .NET library from F#, mutable values, function composition, and several other spiffy sounding things.

Building an F# powered indexing system

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:46:02 GMT

When I first started dabbling in F#, I really struggled to understand how someone (in particular, me) would sit down and start writing an application from scratch. Project Euler puzzles are a great way to learn syntax (and probably the best place to start), but I would have loved to see a real application's source with a sort of "here's how it was built" narrative. So that's what I'm going to do!

10 Hours in F#: Exploring Concurrency Through An Ant Colony Simulation

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:46:03 GMT

"I gave an hour long talk today, on Concurrency in F#. It featured some slides and a small ant colony simulation to demonstrate different kinds of threading. Overall, I liked developing in F# quite a bit; however, puzzling through the interpreter errors was a brutal process indeed."

Apples And Oranges

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:16:03 GMT

"[A] recent blog post caused quite a stir on the F# mailing list. The post presents two solutions for Project Euler Problem 14: one in C# and the other in F#. The C# version clearly is hand-optimized for speed (and is indeed very fast), but the F# solution isn't. Instead, the F# code appears to be written with elegance and brevity in mind. Robert Pickering presented a challenge to create a faster F# solution, and the F# mailing list (which had been dormant for a couple of weeks) literally exploded with ideas. . . ."

Why I Love F#: Result Tuples

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:16:02 GMT

great and direct presentation on how to call C# Code from F#

Improve Your C#! Borrow from F#...

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:46:26 GMT

Awsome awsome awsome way of showing off F# functionality. I know the examples are how you would implement the same thing in C#, but whats great is he's giving you a point of refrerence into F# if you understand only the C# code.

F# to become 1st class .NET language

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:01:02 GMT

F#, the functional programming language born from ML and incubated by Microsoft Research,, is ready for prime time. Full Visual Studio support, a commercial development team, official support, the whole bit. F# becomes the first functional language to get 1st class support on the CLR.

Exploring L-Systems with F# and C#

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:16:03 GMT

In this post I'm going to show a little program for displaying graphical representations of L-Systems using turtle graphics implemented in F#, C# and WPF.

Foundations of F# - First Book Released

Fri, 25 May 2007 02:48:29 GMT

Foundations of F# - The first book on F#, and as far as I know the first book on a niche .NET language (that is one that isn't C#/VB.NET or C++ :) ) will finish its first printing run today (25th May). F# is a functional language for the .NET framework, it is a high quality compiler, with visual studio intergration, implmented by Microsoft Research. No doubt this will give a huge boost the F# community, as will the two books, "Expert F#" and "F# for Scientist" that will following it later this year.

Easy 3D graphics - free demos, videos and source code!

Fri, 04 May 2007 07:16:01 GMT

create 3D graphics quickly and easily with F#. Free beta release.

Introduction to F#

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:01:01 GMT

Cool little on-line tutorial. More information and demos in the F# journal articles to which I now subscribe.

Articles, example programs and tutorial videos on F#

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:10:45 GMT

Covering a wide range of topics, including an introduction to functional programming, pattern matching, the .NET platform and more advanced material illustrating the use of the F# interactive mode for data dissection and visualization.

Don Syme: Introduction to F#, Part 1

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:31:02 GMT

Channel 9 video demonstrating F#, the Microsoft Research's .NET OCaml variant, in action. Make sure you watch part 2 for some crazy DirectX coding.