Tech Mesh - The Alternative Programming Conference is designed to support and promote useful non-mainstream technologies in the software industry and dedicated to users and inventors of various languages and technologies. By offering a networking platform[...]

If I walk into my garage now and open up a toolbox, whats inside? Here’s a quick selection: Ball-peen hammer Jointer plane 1/2 inch mortise chisel Soldering iron Set square Low angle block plane Torx screw drivers Hack saw Monkey wrench Pipe cutter [...]

The annual CUFP workshop is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favor[...]

Fizz-Buzz or Bizz Buzz is a word game, popularized by Jeff Atwood in the article: Why Can’t Programmers… Program? The game has been turned into a simple programming test: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples o[...]

Less than a month to go now until the first FP event of this year – the Functional Programming eXchange at Skills Matter in London on March 16th. Robert Pickering has put together another great line up including on the F# side Tomas Petricek on F# 3.0’[...]

The folks at SkillsMatter in London are hosting the Functional Programming eXchange 2012, on March 16, 2012, in London! Join the Functional Programming community for a one-day conference jam-packed with talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming. Lea[...]

Thank you all for your comments on my previous post, I appreciate the time you all took in sharing your perspectives very much.  Many of you have brought up great analogies to demonstrate how you feel and in reading these responses I realized I must not h[...]

I recently watched this great cast from Graham Hutton on Channel 9: How to be more productive. Right at the beginning he shows us another application of the fixed-point combinator and this got me into the “Haskell/Lazy love”-mode again. So … Weiterlesen →

Haskell got a nice system of classes. Though the name reminds us of the OOP term, these “classes” are very different in their use. Here is an example for people who are not familiar with Haskell classes: Ideally, our F# code would look like: Without editi[...]

If you have any experience in Haskell, you know the IO monad. Some people think it just makes things ugly – but I think it is good, since we are functional programming and we should know when we are using an impure function. What we will do is to define a[...]