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May 2007 - Posts

Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:08 PM

A Sample of the Memoization Pattern in F#

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
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Friday, May 25, 2007 9:26 PM

Game of Life in Silverlight and F#

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
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Monday, May 21, 2007 12:07 AM

Using F# active patterns with LINQ expression trees

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
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Sunday, May 20, 2007 1:23 PM

Dell announces a Latitude Tablet PC

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 work.
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Sunday, May 20, 2007 12:07 AM

F# Books, and F#/XAML

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-level
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:35 AM

F# for Visualization (by Jon Harrop)

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
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Sunday, May 06, 2007 2:02 AM

More on the overloaded conversion operators in 1.9.1.9

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 int
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Sunday, May 06, 2007 1:47 AM

F# 1.9.1.9 available (currently MSI only): Includes overloaded numeric conversion functions and checked arithmetic

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 over
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