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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 01/09/2008

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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F# at Code Camp 10 In Waltham, MA

Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 4:02 PM by RickM
I'll be at New England Code Camp 10 tomorrow giving another talk about functional programming and concurrency in F#. It will be fairly similar to my previous talks in terms of ideas and content, however, I have put a lot of work into making the functional Read More...
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Attachment(s): September 19th Presentation.zip

More F# At Code Camp Hartford

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 2:03 PM by RickM
I am down in Bloomfield, CT today at Hartford CodeCamp which has been put on by the Connecticut .NET Developer's Group . I just gave a very similar version my talk on the 5th. The room was completely full and I was a bit weak and foggy from my recent Read More...
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Attachment(s): August 15th Presentation.zip

Talkin Bout' F# - Presenting at the Western Mass .NET Users's Group

Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:36 AM by RickM
I'm going to be giving a presentation at the my local .NET User's group tonight. The goal of my talk will be to expose the audience to F# as well as some Functional Programming Ideas. Here's a basic rundown of what the talk is about (in order): - What Read More...
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Attachment(s): August 5th Presentation.zip

The Cursed History of Smalltalk in .NET

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:44 PM by RickM
After my last blog post, due to some of the responses, I decided to spend some time with Smalltalk. As a DotNET developer by trade, I wanted to see what kinds of options were available for use on the CLR. Unfortunately, out of the five different DotNET Read More...
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10 Hours in F#: Exploring Concurrency Through An Ant Colony Simulation

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 3:33 PM by RickM
Synopsis I gave an hour long talk today, here at Atalasoft, on Concurrency in F# . It featured some slides and a small ant colony simulation to demonstrate different kinds of threading. Overall, I liked developing in F# quite a bit; however, puzzling Read More...
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Clojure Impressions

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 9:25 AM by RickM
Last night the wmassdevs Group hosted a Clojure presentation by Rich Hickey . Clojure was born of Rich's dissatisfaction with the current state of the concurrent programming and so was built from the ground up around the idea of making this task less Read More...
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