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F# is a succinct, efficient, expressive functional/object-oriented programming language under joint development by Microsoft Developer Division and Microsoft Research. See the F# Developer Center. All opinions are my own. All content is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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February 2006 - Posts

Saturday, February 25, 2006 11:26 PM

F# and Quantitative Finance - a presentation

Christopher Barwick (aka optionsScalper ) recently gave a talk to the Wisconsin INETA group entitled F# - An Introduction Under an Application of Quantitative Finance . The slides are up on his blog, and he promises the code samples will follow soon to.

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Saturday, February 25, 2006 1:54 PM

F# 1.1.10.2 installation problem on Visual Studio.NET 2003

F# 1.1.10.2 has an unexpected problem with installation of the Visual Studio support for Visual Studio 2003. Many thanks to optionsScalper for reporting this problem early. If you use VS 2003 please wait until we release a new version early next week

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Saturday, February 25, 2006 3:37 AM

F# 1.1.10 now available

[ Updated Note: Visual Studio 2003 users : this release has an installation problem when used with Visual Studio 2003. Please see the details here for a workaround . ] [ Updated Note: Virtual PC users : The good man at JJB Research has noted that users

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Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:58 AM

A Taste of F# Interactive in Visual Studio

Here's a taste of some great new functionality that will be in the next release of F#, which we should have out sometime in the next week or so. The cool thing here is not just the pretty graphics (which you've been able to do in F# for a while now),

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:38 PM

Apress Editor Looking for F# Authors

Jim Huddleston at Apress has been looking into F# and has very much liked what he's seen. He's interested in publishing books and articles on F# and functional programming - a great opportunity to use your new-found F# skills to earn some money! Here's

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:11 PM

FJavaC (a functional Java compiler) now on F# using Mono

Stephen Tse of UPenn has just completed his cross-compilation of FJavaC with F# and OCaml, using F# 1.1 on Mono/Linux (he's made some notes about using F# with Mono/Linux on the F# Wiki - some further notes are below). To quote their website, FJavaC is