Faisal Waris's blog articles

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on 12/21/2011 5:55 PM
System.Xml.Linq provides a nice, functional way of querying XML however with F# operator overloading we can create a nice mini DSL to have even cleaner code for XML querying. With this DSL we can mimic XPath and XQuery quite closely. … Continue reading →
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on 10/6/2011 5:34 PM
Twitter now provides a streaming API which can be used to obtain a continuous stream of tweets on any set of topics, locations, etc., in real time. Read the full API details here. It would be nice to convert this … Continue reading →
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on 8/18/2011 10:03 AM
In the previous post I explained, at a very high level, that monads are really about function composition with side activities. In this post, I will use an example based on F#’s Async monad to demonstrate practical uses of monads. … Continue reading →
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on 7/30/2011 2:42 PM
As a late comer to functional programming (FP), I struggled a fair bit with understanding monads at first. The ‘aha’ moment for me was that monads are really about function composition. Function composition is somewhat of an alien concept for … Continue reading →
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on 7/11/2011 1:52 PM
Recently, Robert Hundt of Google published a paper titled “Loop Recognition in C++/Java/Go/Scala” The paper compares various aspects (run-time performance, code size, etc.)  of the implementation of the same algorithm in different languages. See the paper for a detailed analysis. The … Continue reading →
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