Microsoft’s Build 2014 conference is currently in full flow, one of the new products announced is Orleans, an Actor framework for Azure. There’s an MSDN blog article with some details, apparently it was used on Halo 4. Demis Bellot of ServiceStack fame,[...]

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 [...]

At last, the long wait is fianlly over! After 4 years of waiting, the fully managed implementation of the C# compiler [codenamed "Roslyn"][roslyn] has been finally released. In the recent months, "Roslyn" has been slowly turning into [vaporware][vaporw[...]

Faisal Waris has published a very interesting Experience Report on using F# on Android with the Xamarin tools. It is fabulous to again see independent confirmation of the value of F# in the mobile computing space. TL;DR: F# and Xamarin triumphed. I can’t [...]

At BUILD 2014 in San Francisco? Join Miguel de Icaza for his Mobile session:

  At BUILD 2014? Take an evening out to join the F# Bay Area Meetup Group in Silicon Valley for their Coding Dojo - A gentle introduction to Machine Learning with F#. Machine Learning is the art of writing programs that get better at performing a task as [...]

  For those attending BUILD 2014 in San Francisco, the F# Bay Area Group will be hosting drinks at the Thirsty Bear Brewery at 6:00pm on Thursday, April 3, 2014. Come along and discsus how F# works as a community, learn how to contribute to F# tools, proj[...]

A Programming Language (APL) was invented in the swinging 60s, first appearing in 1964. C#, an OOP language, first appeared in the year 2000, to coincide with Britney’s Oops!… I did it again world tour. Adding numbers APL C# [...]

Faisal Waris has published a very interesting Experience Report on using F# on Android with the Xamarin tools. It is fabulous to again see independent confirmation of the value of F# in the mobile computing space. TL;DR: F# and Xamarin triumphed. I can’t [...]