Having studied Haskell and F# and done a lot of C# coding in functional style I realize that “void” declaration …Continue reading →

In this exciting installment of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year, some information about the Daimio and Babel programming languages. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Daimio: A Language for Sharing Dann Toliver Homepage · Presentation · Slides Daimio Is a domain-specific language for customization of web [...]

Emerging Languages Camp is an all day event held before Strange Loop. There were 11 presentations on new and unusual programming languages in varying stages of development. Production-ready languages like C#, Ruby, Clojure, and Haskell don’t just spring to life out of nothing. There exists a historical context of major language families (Algol, LISP, ML, etc.) as [...]

A couple of days ago, I got into the following Twitter exchange: @brandewinder do you have any link to get in touch with this combo? #fsharp— Max Malook (@max_malook) March 21, 2014   So why do I think FsCheck + XUnit = The Bomb? I have a long history with Test-Driven Development; to this day, I consider Kent Beck’s “Test-Driven Development by Example” one of the biggest influences in the way I write code (any terrible code I might have written is, of course, to be blamed entirely on me, and not on the[...]

In the last post, we talked about techniques to implement tail-recursion in F#. We also learned that to write pure functional code we can only use immutable data structures which means we have to implement loop using recursion. Writing recursive function can be cumbersome (e.g., the function has to have one or more base cases) … Continue reading →