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January 2008 - Posts

Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:11 PM

Kean Walmsley on using F# Asynchronous Workflows to simplify concurrent programming in AutoCAD

On Friday Kean Walmsley posted an excellent article on Using F# Asynchronous Workflows to simplify concurrent programming in AutoCAD .I've quoted some it below. There are two things I especially like about this post. First, Kean's code is very clean and
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Friday, January 25, 2008 2:10 AM

Update to the F# 1.9.3 Release

Hi all, An update to the F# 1.9.3 release has been posted to the Microsoft Research Downloads site. Additional changes between1.9.3.7 and 1.9.3.14 are: Constructed classes may now be mutually recursive with other types, fixing an incompletness in the
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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:18 AM

Greg Neverov: Software Transactional Memory for F#

Greg Neverov (of active patterns fame) has placed an implementation of Software Transactional Memory for F# up on hubFS . Here's the description: I have written a library for using software transactional memory in F#. The library exposes memory transactions
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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:10 AM

Dustin Campbell and F# on Hansel Minutes

F# is on the podcasts again! Scott Hanselman interviewed Dustin Campbell who gives a compelling description of F# and functional programming. Dustin also has some fun notes on how to talk on a podcast :-) He's has also started a blog series on F# - here
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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:57 AM

Come and work with us!

The F# team continue to have a small number of positions open for compiler and language tools experts. Positions can be based in Cambridge, UK or Redmond. If you're interested in helping to bring a typed functional programming language into Visual Studio
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:49 PM

Expert F# now available, really!

The book Expert F# is now available from book sellers! It's been shipping for a while, but there were some early reports of delivery delays so I delayed in announcing it. As regular readers will know, the book is by myself, Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino.
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 1:26 AM

Learning WPF through F#, and vice versa, by John Liao

John Liao has an interesting series of F# programming posts, with lots of samples. Many of the WPF topics are taken from Petzold's book Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation . Interactive exploration of
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 12:43 AM

The FParsec library by Stephan Tolksdorf

Stephan Tolksdorf has been a regular F# user of late and has provided us with much excellent feedback, including bug reports and design suggestions. Stephan has just announced version 0.4 of FParsec , an F# adaptation of Parsec , the popular parser combinator
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Friday, January 04, 2008 11:58 PM

Using Digipede from F#

Dan Ciruli is director of products over at Digipede . He's recently been experimenting with F# programming and the Digipede Network and has posted a code sample showing how to distribute F# calculations across a grid using the Digipede Framework SDK .
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