Building an F# powered indexing system (part 2)

published 6 months, 18 days ago, submitted by mrkurt 6 months, 18 days ago

tryingthisagain.com — The second development chunk focuses on creating documents to index, and munging them into a format to hand off to an external library. There are examples of calling a .NET library from F#, mutable values, function composition, and several other spiffy sounding things. read more...

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Beware of List(T).Find

dev102.com — Llist(t).Find returns the first element found that matches a given criteria, but what happens if no such element found? read more...

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Building an F# powered indexing system

published 6 months, 23 days ago, submitted by mrkurt 6 months, 24 days ago

tryingthisagain.com — When I first started dabbling in F#, I really struggled to understand how someone (in particular, me) would sit down and start writing an application from scratch. Project Euler puzzles are a great way to learn syntax (and probably the best place to start), but I would have loved to see a real application's source with a sort of "here's how it was built" narrative. So that's what I'm going to do! read more...

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Yet Another Project Euler Series (YAPES)

diditwith.net — For the past several months, I've been using F# to solve at least two Project Euler problems each week. I find this is a great way to sharpen my math skills and my F# skills simultaneously. If you're looking for a way to flex your programming muscles, you really should check out Project Euler. read more...

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10 Hours in F#: Exploring Concurrency Through An Ant Colony Simulation

published 7 months, 1 day ago, submitted by tomdog 7 months, 6 days ago

atalasoft.com — "I gave an hour long talk today, on Concurrency in F#. It featured some slides and a small ant colony simulation to demonstrate different kinds of threading. Overall, I liked developing in F# quite a bit; however, puzzling through the interpreter errors was a brutal process indeed." read more...

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Functional Programming in C# - Higher-Order Functions

aabs.wordpress.com — This is the second in a series on the basics of functional programming using C#. I explore Higher-Order Functions this time. Higher-Order Functions are functions that themselves take or return functions. Meta-functions, if you like. This is a more code intensive post, that builds on the ideas that I explored last time. read more...

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Trying out PowerCommands 1.1 for Visual Studio 2008

published 7 months, 15 days ago, submitted by Jemm 7 months, 18 days ago

blogs.microsoft.co.il — Generally, I don't like to install any Visual Studio extensions at all, but I thought I should give this one a chance. I installed PowerCommands 1.1 for Visual Studio 2008, and went to play with the new functionality. Here is what I found as the most useful... read more...

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Out parameters suck, tuples rule, F# wins

published 7 months, 15 days ago, submitted by mrkurt 7 months, 21 days ago

tryingthisagain.com — The TryParse method found on many value types is nice and useful. Unfortunately, you're forced to use out parameters to make use of them. Ugh. read more...

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