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January 2009 - Posts

Discoveries This Week 01/30/2009

Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 2:46 PM by RickM
The beauty of clean syntax and deep abstraction is an often overlooked feature of functional programming.  As they say, people come to functional programming for the concurrency but stay for the beautiful code (actually, I just made that up).  Read More...
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F# and Haskell, Estranged Cousins

Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:24 PM by RickM
In this post I compare and contrast Haskell and F#. It may come as no surprise that with so much shared history they share so much in common. However, it’s interesting to consider how the perspectives of the languages’ developers play a large role in Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 01/23/2009

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 1:17 PM by RickM
Another very exciting week.  I’ve barely had time to catch my breath. Meanwhile I’ve decided to take my weekly roundup post consistently in the direction of functional programming in the Microsoft universe for the foreseeable future.  This will Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 01/16/2009

Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 11:17 AM by RickM
This week’s theme is functional programming.  Included are discussions on Software Transactional Memory, Functional Architecture and the impact of the CLR on functional Programming in .NET.   Blog: Brandon Werner’s Software Transactional Memory: Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 01/09/2008

Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 11:37 AM by RickM
It’s been a very exciting week. I actually had more things to post than time would allow me to write about. I’ll have to save them for next time. Blog: Daniel Spiewak’s What is Hindley-Milner? (and why is it cool?) Hindley-Milner is the algorithm all Read More...
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Processes in .NET Part 3 – Interfacing With Simple Console Programs by Example, Tesseract OCR

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:00 AM by RickM
Did you know that .NET provides an easy way to interact and control console programs?  In this article I will walk you through this process by creating a wrapper class for Google’s Tesseract OCR application.  At the end of this post, I will Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 01/02/09

Posted Friday, January 02, 2009 10:42 AM by RickM
It seems like the theme of this week is debugging. Not by my own choice really, I just kept running into really interesting articles on the topic. Blog: Jake Lauzier’s Cross Domain Remote Debugging My coworker Jake Opines has put together a great blog Read More...
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