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 through the interpreter errors was a brutal process indeed.   You can grab my ...

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 painful. Previously, I had never really looked closely at Clojure but I was struck by some of the ...

One of the big reasons for the recent push towards functional programming languages is concurrent programming. Everyone is worried about how the switch from more megahertz to more cores is going to impact how they program. I was reading an article entitled F# Primer over on msdn today. It stated that the reason F#, and other functional ...