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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:37 AM

F# Zen - Array slices

Sorry for not being as regular with blogging, I've been sick and working hard on something pretty exciting. Don will post an announcement sooner or later. Anyways, did you know that in F# you can easily take out a chunk of an array using an Array Slice?
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Friday, November 07, 2008 2:33 PM

F# Zen - ROT13

Below is a primitive implementation of ROT13 / Ceasar Cipher in F#. In short it is a simple encryption algorithm that works by 'shifting' each letter 13 places. So an 'a' becomes an 'n', a 'b' becomes an 'o', and so on. To decrypt the text you simply
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:24 AM

F# Elevator Pitch

At the PDC I spent about eight hours a day for a full week answering the same question again and again: “What is F# and why should I use it.” While I would love to give a long and nuanced answer to this, in order to achieve a high throughput you need
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Friday, October 03, 2008 6:13 PM

F# Zen – The Literal Attribute

When pattern matching it is easy to forget that you are capturing a new value instead of matching against an existing one. Take this function for example: let E = 2.718281828459 let PI = 3.141592653589 // Ooops - this captures a value let isConstant x
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:12 PM

F# Zen - Colored printf

It’s easy to lose track of important data when logging output to the console window, fortunately you can use the System.Console.ConsoleColor property to set the output color. But unlike F#’s printfn, System.Console.WriteLine doesn’t use type inference
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Monday, September 22, 2008 9:17 PM

F# Scripting Zen – Word Interop

Edit: Added a ‘comarg’ function to dramatically clean up the syntax for doing COM-interop, since F# will pass ‘ref types’ as byrefs to COM calls. In a previous post I talked about how to take advantage of .FSX (F# Script) files to automate tasks for you.
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