Videos tagged with F#

Summary Don Syme presents F# basics, a typed functional language for .NET that combines the succinctness, expressivity, and compositionality of functional programming with the runtime support, libraries, interoperability, tools, and object model of .NET. Bio Don Syme is a Senior Researcher in the MSR Cambridge Programming Principles and Tools group. He joined MSR in 1998, and was the initiator,...

Summary In this interview Eric Nelson talks about what’s coming in VS 2010, the C# – VB.NET convergence, the introduction of Parallel as a library, and Azure cloud computing. Bio Eric Nelson has worked at Microsoft UK for twelve years and before joining worked exclusively as a Unix developer writing code in C and other 4GLs. He currently works in Microsoft's partner group and focuse...

Summary In this session recorded at QCon London 2009, Amanda Laucher presents a real life enterprise application written in F#. She shows actual code snippets, explaining design decisions and suggesting how to use some of the F# constructs. The focus is placed on using concurrency. Bio Amanda Laucher is a software developer/architect focusing on Microsoft technologies. She is currently based in...

SummaryTed Neward returns to round out this two-part series on F#. Ted picks up where he left off on Show 136 to give you all you need to know to get going.BioTed Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particul...

Summary In this interview made by InfoQ’s Sadek Drobi, Don Syme, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, answers questions mostly on F#, but also on functional programming, C# generics, type classes in Haskell, similarities between F# and Scala. Bio Don Syme has had a major contribution to the design of F#. He has also participated in the design of C# generics and .NET CLR. He joined M...

SummaryTed Neward shows the basics of F# in this first of a two-part series. If you're new to functional programming, listen to .Net Rocks Show #377 first.BioTed Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particula...

Summary In this interview filmed at QCon SF 2008, Lennart Augustsson talks about writing DSLs in Haskell, presenting the advantages offered by the language. In that context, he talks about embedded DSLs, static and dynamic languages, syntax and semantics, monads and many other related topics. Bio Lennart Augustsson was previously a lecturer at the CS Department at Chalmers University of Technol...

Summary Venkat Subramaniam introduces the concepts of functional programming with Erlang, an open source functional language, setting the stage for F# on a future show. Bio Venkat is an agile developer who teaches and mentors. He has significant experience in architecture, design and development of distributed object systems. He has worked in positions, from Programmer Analyst to Systems Archit...

Summary In this interview, Floyd Marinescu interviews Mads Torgersen about the futures of C#. They discuss LINQ, parallelism and Mads provides his thoughts on functional programming and languages like F#. Bio A former computer science professor from Aarhus University, Mads joined the C# team at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager. As a Microsoft Program Manager, Mads is responsible for the LI...