What do you do with a drunken coder, What do you do with a drunken coder, What do you do with a drunken coder, Ear-ly in the morning? Put em’ on the build and make em fix it, Put em’ on the build and make em’ fix it, Put em’ on the build and make [...]

OK, it's time for Clojure (again). Let's look at the (now famous :) Fibonacci function:It took ~9 seconds which's not so good as would be (however, I'm not very frustrated about that :)What about the language itself, it feels very 'tired' - it has little [...]

  The next meetup of the absolutely fabulous F#unctional Londoners will be one week today, at the usual venue of SkillsMatter. The topic is an exciting one! Alea.CUDA - Combining the computational power of GPUs with the functional elegance of F#Abstract F[...]

In the previous post, I discussed designing combinator libraries that compose some property over unions. It is only fitting to throw records in the mix. type U = | A of int | B of float | C of string let UFormat = ( UnionCase A I[...]

There are lots of resources available for learning more about F#.  In this blog post, I’ll call out some of the best jumping-off points for learning F# through samples, asking questions, and getting involved in the F# community. Code Samples There are a[...]

October 25 and 26 sees the second edition of FPDays in Cambridge UK. There's lots of good F# content at this event, see http://www.fpdays.net/fpdays2012/programme.php Enjoy! Don, for the Visual F# team

SkillsMatter have been running training courses in F# in New York and London and also offer training courses through their well known F# experts such as Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford. Their next course is the Progressive F# Tutorials 2012 in London, 1-[...]

DDFP has a new submission deadline: October 15 Since this is the first time this workshop is running, the organizers are only asking for 4-page position-or-technical papers. So if you have something to say about (functional or object-oriented) programmin[...]