F# 3.0 is included as part of Visual Studio 2012 and comes with a gallery of community contributed online templates for F#. Time to explore! One online template is "F#/C# MVC 4" using ASP.NET Web API. Let's use this template to create a HTTP REST Web API [...]

Boilerplate is any seemingly repetitive code that shows up again and again, like getting and setting instance variables, but seems like it ought to be much simpler. Jon Harrop recently commented on an MSDN article on Functional Programming in C++: (f[...]

I'm very pleased to announce an exciting new workshop being added to the POPL program at POPL 2013.  This workshop is aimed at anyone who loves the application of functional programming (and indeed other programming paradigms as well) to data-rich domains[...]

Some say that API design is one of the hardest things in programming. A few even go as far as to say you should have at least 10 years of experience to even attempt it. While I think this process can be sped up almost an order of magnitude by good mentors[...]

In the last article I defined the Succ operation on numbers and showed how this can be used to implement addition in untyped lambda calculus. Because of the number representation I choose this was rather easy so Subtraction should be … Continue reading →

This is a meta post to coincide with posting over 100 articles over 4 years, going back over some the more popular along with some of my own personal favourites. I started blogging regularly back in 2007 on the Applied Games Group blog, here’s a selection[...]

You might have heard that functional programming is based on Lambda Calculus – and indeed this is true (LISP was greatly influenced by Alonzo Church’s Lambda Calculus and you might have heard of “lambda”s in other functional languages as well) … Continue [...]

I just installed DISQUS on this blog – I hope this will help me hold the spam down and you to a better user experience. As always feel free to give me your thoughts…