Back again this week with a fresh batch of F# Posts, Videos and Events.  I’ve been enjoying Matthew Podwysocki’s “Much Ado About Monads” series quite a lot.  They are well worth checking out for beginner and advanced alike.   Events If you would like to see your event here, send me an email via the link at the top of the page. ...

We have a great selection of links this week with topics including discriminated unions, equality and comparison constraints, purely functional data structures, a language performance comparison, and a couple of 1.9.7.8 compatibility tweaks for XNA and Silverlight. Also, the first Monday of the month approaches and with it another meeting of the ...

I’ve been working for a while on a new presentation which I was finally able to give last week at the New Hampshire .NET User Group.  F# and You! focuses on painting the big picture about F# instead of the off-putting details like having to learn new syntax.   For this new presentation I start by discussing the adoption of ...

A couple of months ago I was talking to Lou Franco, the head of our Software Engineering department and fellow functional programming enthusiast, about the possibility of using F# for projects in the future.  Being business minded, he replied that he would need a compelling reason to bring F# on board.  This presentation is dedicated to ...

A bit of a slow week.  Perhaps some are out playing in the recently fantastic weather instead of blogging about functional programming.  My favorites this week were Paul Hudak’s talk on Haskell, Jason Olson’s Channel9 discussion, Niklas Gustafssons’s Actors in F# and Kurt Schelfthout’s Testing DSLs with FsCheck.   Paul Hudak on ...

In the image processing world, like most computational problems, we often think our work is composed of only two basic ideas: representation and transformation.  Of course, one may have many layers of both representations of transformations and transformations of representations which can make things appear quite complex at times. ...

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 determining the differences between the languages.   A Shared History As far ...

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 be with a heavy slant towards software engineering and, of course, F#.    Post: ...

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: Debunked! In starting with a title that is decidedly sensationalistic, Brandon effectively ...

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 these fancy programming languages like F# and Haskell for type ...