This is the fourth post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Nimrod: A new approach to meta programming Andreas Rumpf Homepage · Slides · Presentation Nimrod’s creator, Andreas Rumpf, describes the language as a statically typed, systems programming language with [...]

One function that I used very frequently in Functional Programming language like F# is map. For C# I can use Select function in LINQ to do the same thing. With ECMAScript5, JavaScript also comes with built-in map function. Here are how map functions looks like in JavaScript: However, if you still have to support IE8, … Continue reading →

The SQL provider now supports basic transactional CRUD functionality and an ODBC provider. A new nuget package is up for you to grab here. As always, you can download and build from source here. The nuget package is still pre-release. You can find it in Visual Studio by toggling the search filter to include pre-release packages. I'm sure Xamarin has a similar feature.  Once this work has been tested well enough,  I will likely upgrade the SQL Provider to a proper release. Experimental ODBC Support We now h[...]

Listen here what the great Luciano Pavarotti has to say about F# ;) (Starts at 3m18s. Some non-desktop browsers will take you to the beginning instead, so you might have to wind forward manually.)

Did you know that it is the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language today? (1st May) No? Well why not!  BASIC is the language that brought computers to the mainstream.  Back in the day, if you had a computer, you learnt how to program it in basic.  Infact, when you switched it on, that’s what you were presented with.  These computers wanted to be programmed. Thousands of people purchased these expensive computers purely to learn how to program them. I figured I should do something to mark the an[...]