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Yet Another Project Euler Series (YAPES)

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:31:02 GMT

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.

Apples And Oranges

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

"[A] recent blog post caused quite a stir on the F# mailing list. The post presents two solutions for Project Euler Problem 14: one in C# and the other in F#. The C# version clearly is hand-optimized for speed (and is indeed very fast), but the F# solution isn't. Instead, the F# code appears to be written with elegance and brevity in mind. Robert Pickering presented a challenge to create a faster F# solution, and the F# mailing list (which had been dormant for a couple of weeks) literally exploded with ideas. . . ."

Why I Love F#: A Refactoring Tale

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:46:03 GMT

An amazing journey! The author takes fairly naive F# code and transforms it into elegant, beautiful code, introducing language features and concepts along the way.

Why I Love F#: Lists - The Basics

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A wonderful explanation of lists in F#, how they operate, and how to use them.

Why I love F#: Option Types

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Dustin Campbell goes over F# option types. Option types are a simple example of a discriminated (or tagged) union, although understanding that isn't necessary in order to use them. Simply put, an option type wraps a value with information indicating whether or not the value exists. For C# or VB programmers, it may be convenient to think of option types as a mutant cross between .NET 2.0 nullable types and the null object design pattern.

Why I Love F#: Result Tuples

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

great and direct presentation on how to call C# Code from F#

Tuples in F#

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:51:22 GMT

Dustin explains why he likes F# in a whole series of posts. This one talks about tuples in F#.

Building Data Out Of Thin Air

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:46:02 GMT

A wild ride through theoretical implementations of Cons, Car and Cdr in Scheme, followed by implementations in C# 3.0 and VB 9. Guaranteed to stretch your mind.

Improve Your C#! Borrow from F#...

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:46:26 GMT

Awsome awsome awsome way of showing off F# functionality. I know the examples are how you would implement the same thing in C#, but whats great is he's giving you a point of refrerence into F# if you understand only the C# code.

F# Resources

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:43:57 GMT

Listing of online resources for learning Microsoft's F# language.

I'm Really Digging F#

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:46:04 GMT

An article that shows the elegance, power and brevity of Microsoft's F# language.

LINQ Closures May Be Hazardous to Your Health!

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

This article is really academic in nature on the topic of closures and how they fit into LINQ query expressions. It contains a highly-contrived example that is not representative of quality LINQ code. One of the most interesting aspects of LINQ query expressions is that they produce lexical closures. Exploiting closures in query expressions can be powerful but tricky.

Visual Basic Envy

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Looks at a LINQ expression feature that Visual Basic .NET 9.0 is geting that C# 3.0 isn't.

The Art of Currying

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:31:02 GMT

This is NOT about food. Haskell Curry came up with a way to melt developer's brains. This is how it is done in C# 3.0