I know this post isn’t of my usual technical type, but I hope you’ll bear with me while I share an idea I’ve been thinking about. Starting way back with SETI@Home, scientists have been borrowing our computer time in exchange for awesomely nerdy screen sav[...]

Pattern matching is everywhere in F#, you can use it in let bindings, in function parameters, in for loops, everywhere, and it is totally amazing. It is in my opinion one of the best features of F#, and in functional languages in general, heck, Erlang goe[...]

Writing compilers is not a really a niche activity. If you think of it, every programmer is doing precisely that, defining a specific language for a given domain and then explaining its semantics to the computer. F#, ML and Haskell programmers know that[...]

Ayande posted a tax calculation challenge the other day here, and here’s my F# solution for the challenge: Enjoy!

When you consider the age old problem of representing different shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle, etc.) my OO fed developer brain naturally jumps to a class hierarchy along the line of: This is perfectly fine and legit, but it’s not the only wa[...]

We are currently finalizing the 2.4 release of WebSharper. This release is mainly concerned with bug fixes and quality-of-implementation improvements. The exciting part is that we are witnessing about 30%-35% generated code size reduction, and a 40% reduc[...]

I have  a love-hate relationship with WPF. I think it is several orders of magnitude better than Windows Forms and gives developers a tremendous expressive power to materialize their ideas into good user interfaces. I wouldn’t dream of doing many of t[...]

While writing the previous article on tokenized matching I realized I left out some important background information on Jaro-Winkler distance. First, there’s something important to know about the Jaro-Winkler distance: it’s not a metric distance and so do[...]

C# developers should be familiar with the yield keyword that was introduced in C# 2.0, and you’ll be pleased to know that F# also has the yield keyword which works in conjunction with F#’s equivalent of IEnumerable – sequences. You can create sequences in[...]