This week Matt Podwysocki puts the fun in functional programming with a deep dive into F#. We’ve heard plenty of high level discussions of F# and functional programming lately, so we tried to dig into the gory details as much as possible:
- What is functional programming, and why should we care?
- Types of applications that would and wouldn’t benefit from F#
- How F# differs from C# 3.x and Javascript
- How F# is being used (games, scripting, data analysis and scrubbing, etc.)
- F# pattern matching
- Using F# in your C# or VB based applications today
- Getting started: F# Interactive, reading the F# source, books and resources
- Interaction with DLR
- Functional features we’d like to see in C# and VB
- Spec# and Sing#
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14 Comments Episode 18: Matt Podwysocki on F# and Functional Programming
Ben Griswold
September 19th, 2008 at 10:41 am
During the podcast, Matt listed a number of references (books, blogs and websites) which F# newbies might wish to, umm, reference. Any chance that list could be appended to this post? Thanks.
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Scott
September 19th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Hi Ben,
We’ll append them as we find them. Here’s a link to Harry Piersons “Functional Programming” tag on his blog.
http://devhawk.net/CategoryView,category,Functional%2BProgramming.aspx
admin
September 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I got more references from Matt and appended them to the show notes. I think we have links to every bit of F# info on the intertubes now.
douglas
September 20th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
another f# blog and team member (believe he is a PM) is Luke Hoban http://blogs.msdn.com/lukeh/default.aspx
Douglas
September 20th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
well should have done it one comment.
Also mentioned was Harry Pierson, who is now PM on the IronPython team, But he did have a series on writeing a Language Parser based on the PEG grammer.
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