Pieter Breed has been asking some useful questions on the F# list recently about using the "Map" type. I really appreciate it when people take the time to let us know when data structures are tricky to learn to use in F#. Looking at Pieter's blog made...

Hi all, I'm glad to announce the availability of F# 1.9.1.9. It's available for download from this link: http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/details/c8d270ce-dc93-4b82-8125-2c57036520b3/details.aspx This is in general a bug fix release...

I'm glad to report that Robert Pickering's book Foundations of F# will be out soon. I'll be writing more on this soon - it was a pleasure to work with Robert and Jim Huddleston as technical editor on this book, and I'm sure you will find it a great entry...

Some people ask me if "Jon Harrop" is an alter-ego. I wish he was, since then I'd be a lot smarter than I am :-) We (the F# and all the Microsoft .NET teams) can make the language and the framework, but Jon is one of those many users who helps make it...

Robert Pickering (the author of Foundations of F# ) has just posted on a blog entry on the Game of Life in Silverlight and F# . Very nice work Robert! You can run it here . What amazes me about this is that it "all just works". Here we have a functional...

Luis Diego Fallas has written a nice blog entry on using F# active patterns to ease the process of working with LINQ expression trees . This kind of "meta-programming" application is absolutely one of the key reasons why Greg Neverov, James Margetson...

F# 1.9.1.9 includes an addition that can substantially simplify F# numeric code. This provides a solution for a problem that has been present in F# programming from the start, but is not present in many other languages. In particular, the functions...

OK, this one isn't about F# :-) Normally I don't write about hardware, but I'm very glad to see that Dell have announced a Tablet PC . Now, normally Tablets are talked about for the business market, but I really want one that fits with both home and...