I touched on the topic of memoization in the past in relation to doing aspect-oriented programming with PostSharp, however, with functional languages like F#, Haskell or Erlang there is no such frameworks (although PostSharp should still work with F# to s[...]

I couldn’t find any decent .NET platform target compatibility chart, so I made one: It’s all rather self explanatory. Green combinations, like an “Any CPU” exe file and an x86 DLL on a 32-bit OS, are compatible. Red are incompatible. The Combined Chart sh[...]

 Visual Studio now has a great site where you can enter and vote on features for languages and otehr aspects of Visual Studio.  Submit and Vote on F# and Visual Studio Features Here! Please take the time to vote on features and submit new ones. This is a [...]

We've previously blogged about FSharpChart, an F# library that makes it easy to use F# for information-rich programming. FSharpChart works well with the Interactive Window, helping you prototype your code quickly. We're happy to announce an update to the [...]

Ever since it was announced that Dart would be announced at GOTO conference I’ve been wonder what dart would be like. I thought I’d take the time put down my initial thoughts here. Is there a need for another language? Tim Anderson poses the question ni[...]

OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. Dr. Alan Kay, http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en

I’ve been playing with Iteratees lately in my work with Dave on fracture-io. The Iteratee module used in this post is part of the FSharpx library and provides a set of types and functions for building compositional, input processing components. A fold, by[...]

In F#, you have the choice of using a struct or a record as a lightweight container for data. The similarities between the two are striking – both are immutable by default, neither can be inherited, and they both offer structural equality semantics by def[...]