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re: F#

derekslager — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:15:53 GMT

F# is a great language. I'm thrilled to see another resource for F# content, as that's the biggest weakness of the language at this point in time IMHO.

The best F# learning resource I've found thus far, in fact, is the O'Reilly OCaml book. As that's been my route to F# enlightenment, I'm rather impressed with the efforts made strictly in the name of compatibility.

Congratulations on the new position. Hope to see more good things coming from the F# team soon!

re: F#

Tom Kirby-Green — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:17:47 GMT

Ditto. I'm really looking forward to reading your F# posts going forwards. I've just picked up a copy of Don Syme's new "Expert F#" book in ebook form from APress. It's so cool to see this language be promoted to the mainstream!

F#, brought to you by Luke!

Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Other Research Projects — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:34:55 GMT

Luke Hoban is now full time as program manager on F#, and has just posted a short introduction about

F#, brought to you by Luke

Noticias externas — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:06:47 GMT

Luke Hoban is now full time as program manager on F#, and has just posted a short introduction about

re: F#

art_scott@msn.com — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:19:49 GMT

F# help in VS soon?

re: F#

LukeH — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:27:26 GMT

art_scott -

Integrated F# help inside Visual Studio is certinaly one of the (many) things on our list of goals for F#. No information yet on when we'll have this - but stay tuned!

re: F#

Refik — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:44:17 GMT

I'd seriously consider using .Net platform if F# had a certified open source license. With F#'s current license Scala looks more attractive to me. I look forward to see an improvement on this aspect.

Tight Code--A Puzzle in F#

Jomo Fisher -- C#, LINQ and Whatnot — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:37:52 GMT

Jomo Fisher--Luke Hoban wrote something in a blog entry that resonated with me: One of the most striking

Tight Code--A Puzzle in F#

Noticias externas — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:59:26 GMT

Jomo Fisher--Luke Hoban wrote something in a blog entry that resonated with me: One of the most striking

re: F#

Julian Moeller — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:48:11 GMT

F# looks a lot like ML :-)

re: F#

Gnub — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:48:34 GMT

ML, anyone?

re: F#

Julian Moeller — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:34:56 GMT

I was actually wondering - will F# feature the same kind of higher order functions such as map and fold?

re: F#

LukeH — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:50:22 GMT

Julian and Gnub -

Yes, F# does look a lot like ML - in fact, it is a variant of ML, most closely related to OCaml. There is a core of the F# language which is shared with OCaml.

re: F#

LukeH — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:56:53 GMT

Julian -

Higher order functions are indeed an important part of F#. In particular, versions of "map" (which applies a function to each element of a collection) and "fold" (which walks across a collection building up a result as it goes) are available over most of the collection types in F#, such as lists, arrays, sets, etc.

re: F#

Chinedu Opara — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:59:56 GMT

Oh what an unfortunate language name. Couldn't you guys have chosen ANY of the other 20 or so remaining letters in the english alphabet? It HAD to be "F#"? HAH HAH

Well, I'm already building my library of "F"-word programming jokes...

re: F#

Gaurav — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:39 GMT

Great Luke...

Will like to catch u on a channel9 video for F# now...

Cum up with some interesting stuff at channel9...

Congratulations for new position...

I m really enjoying the F# world & learning the new language...

re: F#

Jay/R — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:28:54 GMT

Is it possible to get the current version of F# for VS 2005 somewhere? I would like to install it and start working with it. It sounds exciting! Please advise.

re: F#

LukeH — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:50:36 GMT

Jay/R - The current downloads of F# are available at http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/release.aspx.

Lang.Net 2008

Andy Norris — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:32:18 GMT

I loved the awesome interactive-console sample with the manifold and the rolling balls that you presented at Lang.Net 2008. Any chance you'll be posting that stuff here to play with?

re: F#

LukeH — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:13:46 GMT

Andy - The manifold and rolling balls demo I showed at Lang.NET is actually part of the samples that ship with the F# distrubution at http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/research.aspx. This sample is in Samples\FSharp\DirectX\3DVisualization\DirectX.fsharpp.

re: F#

Andrew Craven — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:15:53 GMT

Very impressive indeed! I also wrote my own LINQ mandelbrot set generator (in C#) a few days ago using many of your techniques from the raytracer - http://latebound.blogspot.com/2008/03/generating-fractals-with-linq.html.

re: F#

Andrei — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:02:21 GMT

Did you ever try Nemerle? This language really deserves to take a look at. And I think it's better than F#

re: F# Mandelbrot set

John — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:59:01 GMT

You have just outgeeked me by a power of 10, at least.

Hangs tail between legs and goes home

re: F#

Joyce — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:24:23 GMT

Detail introduction about these codes?

Waiting on line!