An exciting week with the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and F# 1.9.6.16.  This week we have John Backus’s classic FP manifesto,  Luke Hoban speaks on F# in VS2010 beta 1, Django for ASP.NET, and an article on breaking changes in the latest F# release.   John Backus – Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ...

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 Smalltalk flavors that have been created, not a single one is still under ...