Jon Harrop has a new book out, called F# for Techncial Computing. To quote: Read this full-color book to learn how Microsoft's new F# programming language can be used as a next-generation platform for high-performance interactive technical computing. Topics covered include the latest version of the F# language, parallel programming with the Task Parallel Library, … Continue reading New Book Out: F# for Technical Computing →

I notice that two good open source .NET math projects, dnAnalytics and Iridium, are in the process of merging into one combined project, called Math.NET Numerics. Great to see some consolidation and alignment here. If you're interested in open source math on .NET, this looks like a good opportunity to get involved. There is good F# … Continue reading dnAnalytics + Iridium –> Math.NET Numerics →

Soma has a nice blog post on F# in Visual Studio 2010 With Visual Studio, we strive to give your organization the tools to tackle a broad range of software problems with the interoperability and efficiency that you need and have come to expect from software based on the .NET Framework.   As part of this, … Continue reading Soma on F# in Visual Studio 2010 →

I've had a few reports of people having issues downloading the F# tutorial code and slides from my last post. I just tried myself and it worked OK - I got a zip as expected. Please email me (dsyme at microsoft dot com) or leave a comment if you're still having problems after a few retries. Thanks don

CUFP is a workshop for presenting case studies in commercial uses of functional programming. Run alongside the more theoretical ICFP (this year in Edinburgh), it provides an interesting interface between the academic and commercial worlds. If you are using F# or the functional parts of C# (e.g. LINQ) in industry, or have interesting thoughts or perspectives … Continue reading Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, 4 September 2009 →

When Luca Bolognese does a 2.0 release, he only fixes one bug - amazing! If you take a look at the testing he did for this library (with F# Interactive), you can see why. I simply fixed a bug related to the Rate function (wrong name for parameters). It is here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/FinancialFunctions  

Stephan has updated FParsec, the parser combinator library for F#. A new version of FParsec (v. 0.7.3.1) has been released fixing a bug in the `normalizeNewlines` function which also affected the `skipped` and `manyTillString` parsers. Everyone is recommended to update.Best regards,    Stephan  

Gavin wants to be the first to write F# code for the Surface using the Microsoft Surface SDK. Or can you get there first? :-)

A great blog from Brian McNamara on What does this C# code look like in F#?   ...when you are new to a language (F#), it is sometimes useful to know how to transliterate from a well-known language (C#) for those cases where you just don't know the idioms yet, but don't want that to prevent you … Continue reading What does this C# code look like in F#? (part one: expressions and statements) →

So, it's quite fun to stumble across the F# for Scientists online book club! And the next meeting is tonight! Welcome to the F# for Scientists Book Club!  Our next meeting is Monday, December 8th @ 7pm PST. We'll be discussing Chapter 2: Program Structure Anyone can join you just need the following: The book!: http://is.gd/7TIv  Skype ID Microsoft SharedView

Lots of F#-related articles and blogs coming out at the moment. Here are a few that have caught my eye   ·         Brian McNamara does Texas Hold 'Em hand evaluation in F# (part 1, part2, part3, part4)   ·         Kean Walmsley distributes his Autodesk University (SU) handouts on F#. AU Handouts: AutoCAD® .NET - Developing … Continue reading Some Recent F# Articles and Blogs →

Kurt has updated FSCheck, a port of QuickCheck, for the F# CTP http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/thread/6604.aspx [Update 2: I converted the old F# project to a shiny new .fsproj compatible with the F# September CTP which was released yesterday. ...]

Wildart has been working on an F# addin for MonoDevelop for use on all platforms where Mono runs. To quote I just finished draft version of F# Addin for Monodevelop. This addin provides support of F# compiler in Monodevelop IDE. You could find new version of Monodevelop in Mono 2.0 Preview. Take a look! The project site is … Continue reading F# addin for MonoDevelop →

Brian's posted Part 2 of this series.

Are you currently developing or maintaining a medium to large-sized program written in a functional language, such as Haskell, F#, OCaml, or Lisp?  Chris Bogart is a PhD student doing a study of functional programmers, as part of a research internship at Microsoft, and would like the opportunity to look over your shoulder while you do debugging … Continue reading Help with study of functional programmers →

After a post on Planet F#, I looked around for 5 minutes and here are a few high-paying jobs where F# skills are a "major plus" C++ Developer Algorithmic Trading NY $200-250k CT based hedge fund - OO developer build trading system platform C# Experts 2-4 Years Top Tech / Finance Firm Senior Software developer to … Continue reading Some F# Jobs →

Brian and Chris have been writing some great blog posts of late on learning F#. I can highly recommend these ones in particular: F# in 20 Minutes - Part I, by Chris New F# users: some tips to help you become productive more quickly, by Brian Discriminated Unions in F#, also by Brian Pipelining in F#, … Continue reading Learning F#: Some great blog posts from the F# team →

John Liao has an interesting series of F# programming posts, with lots of samples. Many of the WPF topics are taken from Petzold's book Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation. Interactive exploration of .NET XML programing with F# Learning WPF with F# Learning WPF - Working with Brush … Continue reading Learning WPF through F#, and vice versa, by John Liao →

Dan Ciruli is director of products over at Digipede. He's recently been experimenting with F# programming and the Digipede Network and has posted a code sample showing how to distribute F# calculations across a grid using the Digipede Framework SDK. The code is easy to follow, and he's looking for comments on the approach he … Continue reading Using Digipede from F# →

Harry Pierson of Microsoft Enterprise Applications Services has been looking a lot at F# recently. He has a great series of posts exploring the language, and some good suggestions and observations too. Harry will be starting a series on "Practical Parsing" soon, so more to come!  

Daniele over on hubFS has been doing interesting things with AutoDesk and F# in the last few days. Take a look at this link: How to write an Autodesk Inventor Add-In using F# Coincidentally, Kean Walmsley has written his first AutoCAD application using F# and has just followed up with A mathematical F# application integrating with AutoCAD … Continue reading How to write an Autodesk Inventor Add-In using F# →

Vlad Levin from the Static Driver Verifier team at Microsoft has posted a job announcement for a software verification engneer using F#/OCaml. Here are some excerpts: Are you interested in working on cutting edge program analysis tools to find bugs in source code? Do you want to help get rid of those pesky blue screens … Continue reading F#/OCaml Job at Microsoft: Static Driver Verifier and PreFast for Drivers →

Jon Harrop recently recorded an interview about F# on .NET Rocks. It's a good listen - the conversation moves between some of the concepts often associated with functional programming (e.g. tree manipulation and laziness) and discussions about F# itself and its role in the world of .NET. I particularly liked how Jon describes how both … Continue reading Jon Harrop on .NET Rocks →

Jason Hogg is one of the Microsoft incubation team members behind the SecPAL project, a joint intiative between Microsoft Research Cambridge and the incubation teams in Redmond. He's just recently been using F# to write the simplified English grammar parser for the project. One of the great strengths of SecPAL is its unique support for … Continue reading Jason Hogg implements the SecPAL for simplified English grammar in F# →

Robert Pickering has just posted his second article on the topic of incremental evaluation in F#.  His first article is here. His first article is here. In his second article he looks at testing code that prices European options. To quote: I decided to use the idea of pricing european options, since it’s similar to … Continue reading Robert on “Recalculating Values Only When Dependencies Change” →

It's been quiet around here lately. Put another way, this has been simply the best holiday/vacation I've ever taken. No internet for the last week, no email for large chunks of time, lots of fresh air in the Swiss Alps, and three wonderful companions along for the ride. Thanks also to Martin Odersky and Burak … Continue reading Mountains, Lakes, Children →