Normally, with languages like C# or Java, there is quite a bit of overhead in creating a quick and dirty program to do small tasks like bulk renaming files in a director, etc. This is the spot that is filled by scripting languages like Python, Perl and Ruby, but did you know that you can [...]

Microsoft Research in Cambridge has ongoing Post-doctorate positions open for very high quality recent PhD-level graduates, and internships for current PhD candidates. I would like to encourage potential candidates interested in the field of web-delivered, data-rich cloud programming. Think of taking some of the world's greatest applied programming language work, delivering it to high quality in educative web-delivered learning environments, combine it with innovative techniques for strong typing and infor[...]

Would you like to see other teams at Microsoft doing specific things to support F# better? Then now you have a great way to let them know! For example, lets say you would like the .NET CLR to implement more and better floating point optimizations around SSE4, AVX etc. Then go and add your votes to this Visual Studio suggestion!  Also, add your comments and join the discussion - make your case why this is a crucial feature for high performance programming.   Similarly, would you like the Visual Studio debug[...]