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For Functional Programming eXchange 2012 and I’ve tried to put together a programming that mixes the best the functional programming community has to give. I wanted both talks that show how functional programming languages can be used more effectively and that show off new up and coming language and new language features. I also wanted talks that gave feedback from project that were implemented using functional languages. I’m pleased to say we have plenty of both. The day will kick off with David Pollak t[...]

For illustration purposes only, here’s how you can implement the QuickSort algorithm in a few lines of code: Note that I’ve not made the list generic to avoid complications and performance overheads associated with dealing with generics. Even then, my 5-line implementation pales in comparison with the built-in sort function: This just goes to show [...]

So recently some of us were discussing the fact that F# 3.0 is going to add a feature to make it more amenable to OO programmers.  F# 3.0 will add automatic “getters” and “setters” for members of a class. A small digression; I prefer the terms “inspector” and “mutator” because they seem more precise. If [...]

Seattle F# user group meeting Feb 21, 2012 Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 6:00 PM. Microsoft Building 99, Room 1919-C, Redmond, WA (map) 47.641712 -122.140670 As with the previous meetup, we have two sessions + one tiny program contest: Ryan Riley  (F# MVP) : Web Apps and APIs with F# Most .NET web applications today use ASP.NET WebForms or MVC. However, several F# libraries offer new ways to build web APIs and applications help reduce code and offer better abstractions, especially for single-page applic[...]