F# Language, Functional Programming, etc.

In one of the papers about F#, the F# designers gave the following description: "F# is a multi-paradigm .NET language explicitly designed to be an ML suited to the .NET environment. It is rooted in the Core ML design and in particular has a core language largely compatible with OCaml". In other words this means that the syntax of the F# language is similar to ML or OCaml (don’t worry if you don’t know these languages, we’ll look at some examples shortly), but the F# language targets .NET Framework, which means that it can natively work with other .NET components and also that it contains several language extensions to allow smooth integration with the .NET object system.

Articles about F#

Dynamic Lookup in F# (6/4/2008)
Dynamic languages allow you to represent a member using a symbol or a string and to use this symbol to work with the member. In this article I'll show how to do same thing in statically-typed way in F#.
Thesis: Client-side Scripting using Meta-programming (3/17/2008)
Contains a link to my Bachelor Thesis about F# WebTools, which I partially worked on during my visit in Microsoft Research and which I successfully defended last year.
F# Support for ASP.NET and Notes on Samples (3/8/2008)
In this article I look at the F# suppot for ASP.NET and at some interesting aspects of the samples that are available in the F# distribution.
Infinite Cheese Fractal using WPF 3D and F# (11/24/2007)
This article describes a 3D version of famous Sierpinski carpet fractal implemented in the F# language using WPF 3D libraries from .NET 3.0.
F# Overview (IV.) - Language Oriented Programming (11/3/2007)
In the fourth article of the F# overview series, I will shortly describe how I understad the language oriented paradigm and how the F# language can be used for developing libraries using this paradigm.
F# Overview (III.) - Imperative and Object-Oriented Programming (11/3/2007)
In the third part of the F# overview, we will look at the F# features that are essential for a smooth interoperability with other .NET languages and form a second part of the F# core language - that is object oriented and imperative programming.
F# Overview (II.) - Functional Programming (11/3/2007)
In the second part of the F# overview we will look at functional programming, which is probably the most important paradigm used with the F# language, because F# is built on the same grounds as many functional languages.
F# Overview (I.) - Introduction (11/3/2007)
First article of the F# Overview series introduces the F# language and gives a quick overview of the programming paradigms that will be discussed in the upcoming articles.
F# Quotations Samples on CodePlex (9/20/2007)
This article describes a few samples available in the F# Samples project at CodePlex that demonstrate how to work with the F# quotations using active patterns.

Building LINQ Queries at Runtime in F# (8/18/2007)
In this article I will introduce FLinq, the F# support for language integrated query and show how we can construct a database queries dynamically in a type-safe way in F#.
F# Web Tools: "Ajax" applications made simple (7/13/2007)
This article introduces the F# Web Toolkit, which is an "Ajax" web framework that solves three major problems that many people have to face when developing modern web applications.
Keep your multi-core CPU busy with F# (3/24/2007)
Code which makes it possible to write applications that take advantage of multi-core CPUs by parallelizing F# filter and map functions.
Quotations Visualizer for F# 1.1.13.8 (2/14/2007)
Little update to my F# quotations visualizer tool to make it compatible with the latest version of F# (1.1.13.8).
F# presentation at Czech .NET Group meeting (11/14/2006)
Contains links to slides and demos from my presentation focused on F# and functional programming, which I did at the Czech .NET User Group meeting.
F# metaprogramming and classes (10/14/2006)
This article presents prototype that makes it possible to use F# metaprogramming to analyse and translate classes written in special way.
F# quotations visualizer - reloaded! (10/1/2006)
New and improved version of quotation visualizer. Supports more language constructs and makes it possible to open quotations from compiled F# assembly.
F# CodeDOM Provider on the CodePlex (8/23/2006)
CodeDOM generator for the F# language posted to the new Microsoft community site called CodePlex!
ASP.NET web applications in F# (8/13/2006)
This article shows how ASP.NET can be extended to support F# language using CodeDOM provider.
F# quotations visualizer (6/21/2006)
Application that displays graphical representation of given F# quotation (using Windows Forms TreeView control)
Slides and demos from F# presentation (6/9/2006)
I did a F# presentation at .NET seminar at our university, so here are the slides and demos...
F# - Simple quotations transofration (5/28/2006)
This article describes very simple code that I wrote while learning how to work with the F# quotations library.

Other F# Sources

[1] F# web site [^] - Official F# homepage
[2] Expert F# [^] - Book by by Don Syme, Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino
[3] Foundations of F# [^] - Book by Robert Pickering
[4] hubFS: THE place for F# [^] - The F# community web site with blogs, forums, etc..
[5] F# Wiki Homepage [^] - F# Wiki started by Robert Pickering
[6] Don Syme’s WebLog on F# and Other Research Projects [^] - Blog written by the F# language designer Don Syme
[7] Robert Pickering’s Strange Blog [^] - Blog of the "Foundations of F#" book author
[8] Granville Barnett [^] - Explorations in programming
[9] F# News [^] and F#.NET Tutorials [^] by Jon Harrop
[10] F# Samples [^] - Contains code that demonstrate various F# language features
[11] F# WebTools [^] - Project that allows writing client/server Ajax web applications entirely in F#

(Published: October 11, 2007 02:39)