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F# to become 1st class .NET language

published 10 months, 17 days ago, submitted by

JudahGabriel 10 months, 18 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — F#, the functional programming language born from ML and incubated by Microsoft Research,, is ready for prime time. Full Visual Studio support, a commercial development team, official support, the whole bit. F# becomes the first functional language to get 1st class support on the CLR.

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Wish they'd give IronPython a bit of the same love, which has been in release since a while now. It would be sweet to get fully-supported Visual Studio integration. It is there as an integration sample as part of the VS 2005 SDK, but then again, it's just a sample (albeit an impressive one).

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atifaziz 10 months, 18 days ago

Yes, I'd like to see IronPython and, when ready, IronRuby get the same 1st class .NET citizen treatment.

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JudahGabriel 10 months, 17 days ago

Now what's missing is the ability to write a part of a partial class in F# and a part in C#.
Or, at least, an ability to keep different language classes in the same project.

posted by ashmind 10 months, 16 days ago

I don't think the "different language code files in same project" is a good idea. I think we'd see some bad abuses of that; a whole project should be of one language, IMO.

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JudahGabriel 10 months, 15 days ago

Following your point, why not a whole solution in single laguage?

There are often XML, XSLT, ASP.NET markup, Javascript, CSS and C# living together in the same project.
And things like Regular Expressions live happily even inside the C# code.
Also, the projects themselves are MSBuild.

Does it really makes everything harder to understand?
I doubt that Xml transform in C# (without XLinq) is more understandable than Xslt.
And if I write Xml transformation in Xslt, isn't it better to write tree walking in F# active patterns?

posted by ashmind 10 months, 14 days ago