Invited talk to Queens College Computer Science Student Society, 14 May 2023, by Don Syme Invitation by Conall Moss, Lochlann Baker, Dan WendonBlixrud, Andy Zhou A long, long time ago I wrote in assemblerand those opcodes used to make me smileI wrote my hello world program in 16kb of RAMNo function call no do or … Continue reading Invited talk to Queens College Computer Science Student
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Rethinking Applicatives
On Thursday Nick Blair gave a fabulous talk on using the functional design pattern called "applicatives" for data processing and validation in the context of AWS cloud programming (content). As part of a cooperative follow-up, I thought it would be cool if those of us in the London F# community use this as a practical … Continue reading Rethinking Applicatives
Rethinking Currying
Originally published 10/02/2020 Over the weekend I was asked by Andy Gocke about the history/choices of the inclusion of currying and partial application in the F# design. Am happy to discuss, here's a quick note. First, from the historical perspective most of this comes in via F# <-- OCaml <-- Edinburgh ML. For raw core … Continue reading Rethinking Currying
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