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December 2006 - Posts

Monday, December 18, 2006 6:38 PM

New drafts of chapters from "Expert F#"

I'm very glad to announce the availability of drafts of Chapters 2-7 of Expert F#, of a book on F# which I'm currently in the process of co-authoring (thanks to James Huddleston at Apress for permission to post these). This is one of two F# books planned
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 3:40 PM

Writing XBox 360 games with F# and XNA Game Studio Express (courtesy of Jack Palevich)

Whoa! F# for games on the XBox 360!? Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express got launched today, and is available free to anyone with a Windows XP-based machine at http://www.msdn.com/XNA . This is based on Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and the Microsoft.NET
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:09 PM

HDFS - Hardware design using F#

Andy Ray applies F# to hardware design and simulation , called HDFS , based on a port of HDCaml , by Tom Hawkins. Here's what Andy says about how he came to use F#: Deciding to use F# for HDFS was purely accidental. I found the tool, decided to see what
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:45 AM

F# helps show we're not Neanderthals

Well, sort of :-) One of our most recent scientific users of F# is Darren Platt , head of computational genomics at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (they sequence something like 20% of the world’s DNA - here are the stats ). Darren is a co-author of the
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