Contagious Curiosity : F#

What's in your Visual Studio?

llangit — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:11:16 GMT

As I continue my current language-exploring mode, I've noticed that Visual Studio 2008 is becoming a candy store for me. Is it just me, or do we have an incredible amount of new stuff to play with? I can't really remember the last time I watched TV, other than Slumdog Millionaire there hasn't been a movie to catch my interest for awhile and when I am done coding, I just want to read a technical book to 'go deeper' in this stuff. I going to need a geek-intervention soon if I keep it up at this rate! Now I am looking at the Visual Studio Extensibility Center, uh oh...

Here's my list of installed stuff- Azure SDK, Robotics SDK, Spec # CTP, IronPython Studio, F# CTP, Oslo and M CTP, Parallel Extension for .NET - I got the .NET 4.0 WCF / WF stuff from PDC (looked at in that VPC, don't even know if it's downloadable yet). I feel like I am 'losing it' on Silverlight 2.0, Silverlight toolkit, AJAX toolkit, AJAX futures - haven't looked at it since PDC. What am I missing?

How about you? What have you downloaded and installed into VS2008 that has delighted you?

Learning Face-Melting Functional Programming for .NET

llangit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:48:22 GMT

Also this which explains more...

Chris Smith's completely unique view : Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

Cool PDC2008 Contests

llangit — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:58:11 GMT

The Professional Developer's Conference (Oct 27-30, 2008) is already my favorite public, Microsoft technical event because of it's pure geekiness - I mean where else will you find sessions like "Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio" or "Concurrency Runtime Deep Dive: How to Harvest Multicore Computing Resources" and get to hear presenters like Don (Box) and Anders (Hejlsberg)? Oh and there's this new Open Space thing being run by ubergeek himself, Jason.

All this goodness in my town and now fun contests too. Hey, why don't YOU enter one of these contests?

PDC2008 | Social | Contests

F# Function Composition

llangit — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:34:23 GMT

Function composition is beautiful - thanks, Jason, for pointing me to this one.

Did it with .NET - YAPES: Problem Six

I'm supposed to be writing, but...

llangit — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:38:22 GMT

Apologies in advance to Don Syme here. I'm weak, and easily distracted. F# is my muse.

let WriteChaptersAsync (x) =
     async { use someBrain = Brain.OpenAndThink(sprintf "getIt.tmp" x)
     let! ideas = someBrain.ReadAsync(thoughts)
     let ideas' = TransformIntoParagraphs(pages,x)
     use outStream = Brain.OpenAndWrite(sprintf "gotIt.done" x)
     do! outStream.WriteAsync(ideas') }

let WriteChaptersAsync ( ) =
printfn "WriteChatpersAsync...";
let tasks = [ for x in 1 ..numPages -> WriteChaptersAsync(x) ]

     //realistically using Async.Future here, or maybe Async.Spawn...
     Async.Run (Async.Parallel tasks) | > ignore
     printfn "WriteChaptersAsync finished!";

Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Other Research Projects : Introducing F# Asynchronous Workflows