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’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 ...