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Friday, October 24, 2008 11:11 PM

"From Parallel F# to Parallel FPGAs", from Avalda

One of the most intriguing F# announcements recently is " Avalda FPGA Developer ". Here's the descripton from Stephen Afande , the brains behind Avalda: The compiler enables folks to compile [a subset of] F# code to an HDL netlist output suitable for
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Friday, September 19, 2008 3:00 PM

F# Job: Senior role at Credit Suisse in Functional Programming

Credit Suisse is seeking to recruit an expert in functional programming for a senior role in the Global Modelling and Analytics Group (GMAG) in the Securities Division. Cross-posted from http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/thread/7066.aspx : The group consists
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:32 AM

F# CTP release update

It’s been a week now since we posted the F# September 2008 CTP release, and it’s been fantastic to see the great response from existing and new F# users alike. We’ve received a lot of good feedback too, and a big thank you to everyone who has taken the
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:42 PM

F# Optimization Modeling Language Sample Utilizing Microsoft Solver Foundation

The first version of the F# Optimization Domain Specific Language (ODSL) sample is now available, built with the new Microsoft Solver Foundation . Solver Foundation is a framework of solvers and modeling services enabling planning, risk modeling, and
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:17 PM

An introduction to Units of Measure by Andrew Kennedy

Andrew Kennedy has published the first part of a tutorial introduction to Units of Measure in F# . Do you remember NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter? It was lost in September 1999 because of a confusion between metric and so-called " English " units of measurement
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Friday, August 29, 2008 7:30 PM

Detailed Release Notes for the F# September 2008 CTP release

These are the detailed release notes for the F# September 2008 CTP release. The release announcement is here . We will be publishing a known issues list here shortly and augmenting it as new issues are found. [ Update : The following issues were addressed
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Friday, August 29, 2008 6:34 PM

The F# September 2008 CTP is now available!

I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the F# September 2008 CTP Release , launched via the new MSDN F# Developer Center . This release represents an important step in the evolution of the F# language as we progress it towards a fully supported
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:49 PM

F# for Scientists now available!

I can't believe I missed posting about this - F# for Scientists is now out! I haven't got my hardcopy just yet, but I read a draft of this book, and was really very impressed. The 3D visualization chapter is stunning in its simplicity and power, the parallel
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Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:46 AM

FSCheck 0.2

Kurt Schelfthout has jsut updated FSCheck , an F# version of QuickCheck . Here's how Kurt described FSCheck in his v0.1 announcement : FsCheck is a tool for testing F# programs automatically. The programmer provides a specification of the program, in
Posted by dsyme | 1 Comments
Saturday, July 19, 2008 5:28 PM

F# and ArcGIS/ArcObjects

Ray Vernagus has posted an introduction to using F# with ArcGIS through ArcObjects . One of the things I like most about F# is how it allows typed functional programming to be applied to data-rich domains such as Machine Learning, Computer Aided Design
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Monday, July 14, 2008 8:42 PM

1.9.4.19 release

We've posted a minor update to version 1.9.4 (called 1.9.4.19). The change notice is in the README and below. There are three fixes/changes in this release Ø There was a glitch that prevented F# version 1.9.4.17 programs working well on Mono. A workarounds
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:14 AM

Updated Specification for the 1.9.4 "Spring Refresh" Release

I've just updated the links on the F# manual pages to point to the updated draft language specification (one big HTML page, or PDF ) for the 1.9.4 release . This is a major revision of the old spec to cover much of the language work done in the 1.9.4
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:42 PM

From Script to .NET Component: Huffman Coding with F#

Luke Hoban has a very nice blog entry that shows an implementation of Huffman Coding with F# . This not only shows of F# as an algorithmic problem-solving language, but, just as importantly, shows just how elegant and smooth it is to take this code and
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 4:41 PM

F# Talks at TechDays in Paris: Slides and Videos

It's taken me a while, but I've finally posted the slides from the two talks I gave at TechDays in Paris Introduction to F# (beginner) F# and Parallel Programming (joint talk with Robert Pickering, slides here - Robert's slides cover web services and
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Friday, May 02, 2008 11:34 PM

Detailed Release Notes for F# 1.9.4

These are the full release notes for F# 1.9.4. The download link is on the main announcement page . We'll also use this page to note known issues with the release as we find them. Summary Language Symmetric Operator Overloading Additional nullness checking
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