Monads are one of the most complex concept to apprehend I encountered while learning functional programming, and unfortunately, like many developers I probably use them without understanding all the possibilities they offer. Before talking about...

  The .NET Framework helps developer boost their productivity by giving them a set of tools and libraries they need to quickly start implementing the core of their software without loosing time on details. The idea behind the Common Language Infrastructure...

  I remember the day I got the mind shift about functional programming. I switched from being a fervent defender of  Java and C# to a passionate of LISP dialects. At the time I was convinced that there were nothing better than OOP and curly...

  Typing system   The functional core of F# is statically typed, which means all checks concerning typing are done during compile time. Both Statically typed and dynamically typed system have pros and cons. Dynamic typing allows flexibility...

  One of the most interesting article I read about programming languages has been published by the author of Chibi, a small scheme implementation ( http://synthcode.com/blog/2009/06/Small_is_Beautiful ). The latter tries to defend the idea that beauty...

  Pattern matching is a way of writing conditional code by mainly decomposing data into subcomponents. It is a high level construct allowing programmers to think naturally about their algorithms rather than in programming terms. Under the hood pattern...

  Lists are the most important data structures in functional programming languages. It is not for nothing that the first functional programming language, that is by the way the second oldest programming language (1958) is called LISP which stands...

  Most imperative programmers who start learning functional programming are lost because they don’t see loop constructs in code. Indeed even if some functional languages such as F# provide looping constructs they rarely or sometimes never use them...

  Obscure syntax, missing looping constructs, unknown programming patterns, the lack of libraries or documentation, there are a lot of reasons discouraging imperative programmers to start learning and using functional programming languages. Microsoft...

  Hello future readers, I am Dorian Corompt, I am a new developer consultant employee at Microsoft France. As a good resolution for this new year, I decided to start writing a blog to share with you my passion for technologies. What I intend to publish...