Another great week in F#.  Most importantly, it is now known that the language will continue to be available for free, despite productization.  Also, the F# PowerPack is now available for VS2010 beta and the MSDN documentation is up.   Tore Green asks Don Syme “will F# continue to be freely available?” Free options will ...

A few weeks off left me with renewed vigor.  This week we have some very interesting posts on reflective and reactive programming, enhancing F# by adding additional operators, IL analysis via simulation and finally, observations on the productization of F#.   Luke Hoban’s Lang.NET presentation on the productization of F# A set of ...

With the start of our F# User’s Group this next Monday and New England Code Camp 11 last weekend, things have been extremely busy this past week.  Meanwhile, the F# sociocosm is growing at a rapid pace.  This week we have a talk by Don Syme, a look at F# quotations, and finally, some discussion on Seq.unfold.   Chris Bowen’s Post, ...

This week we have ActionScript byte code manipulation, COM interop in F#, a quick look at the option type, and finally, a very elegant cross product implementation. Blog – Luis Diego Fallas’s Manipulating AVM2 byte code with F# This article focuses on using AbcExplorationLib to parse AVM2 ActionScript byte code.   AbcExplorationLib is ...

This week we have MapReduce, WebTools and yet another F# to C# language comparison.  I spent yesterday at a seminar led by Michael de la Maza.  He, Talbot Crowell and I will soon be starting a F# user’s group in Boston, Massachusetts.  I’m interested in any comments you might have.  Please feel free to send me an email if you ...

This week we have practical examples of Lazy Evaluation with Memoization, an interview with Don Syme and a discussion on the Visitor Pattern’s place in F#.  Also, any comments on the new title for my weekly posting would be appreciated.   Forum – Memoization and Lazy Evaluation in F# on HubFS In this thread brianmcm (Brian ...

Some interesting gems this week.  Revit, Closures and MathTools won the day.  However, I do hope you'll take a look at the IL post as well.  Blog – Jeremy Tammik’s Use F# Directly in Revit In Jeremy’s post he discusses what is initially necessary to get F# and Revit working together.  He also provides a sample of a Revit ...

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 ...