In this post, we are going to test the escaped concact/split functions that we implemented last time. Along the way, it will become apparent why F# is an ideal language for writing .NET unit tests. These are the signatures of the two F# functions to be te[...]

In this post, we are going to test the escaped concact/split functions that we implemented last time. Along the way, it will become apparent why F# is an ideal language for writing .NET unit tests. These are the signatures of the two F# fu[...]

Originally posted on Jorge Tavares Notes:I was looking for examples of Lisp implementations using F# and found these 3 interesting series of blog posts. You can find other posts about implementing Lisp or Scheme using F# but these were the ones I found mo[...]

I attended the first London meetup group for the D programming language last week with my friend David.  Near the end we had a chance to try and solve a cool programming problem called the secret santa challenge. disclaimer – I am a complete D 'lol newb' [...]

Today I want to show you some cool stunts you can do with single-case ADTs to help you make invalid states unrepresentable. To be precise I want to talk a bit about Phantom Types – those are parametrised types where a type-variable only appears on the lef[...]

What do I mean when I say? System level package / Global package: Package installed so that it is available for every program on the system Local package: Package installed into sub folder of project and only available to that project Timeline [...]

What do I mean when I say? - System level package / Global package: Package installed so that it is available for every program on the system - Local package: Package installed into sub folder of project and only available to that project Timeline dp[...]

Sometimes when working with xml you have more information in the xml file than you know what to do with in your code. It could be new tags or attributes. A way to use the xml you have not anticipated in your code. A simple way to present that information [...]

Sometimes when working with xml you have more information in the xml file than you know what to do with in your code. It could be new tags or attributes. A way to use the xml you have not anticipated in your code. A simple way to present that information [...]

I recently chatted with someone about functional programming and why you would not want to have a look at it these days (something I cannot understand at all ;) ). Aside from the usual stuff like “to ivory tower”, “to abstract”, “to much math”, “to differ[...]