OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. Dr. Alan Kay, http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en

I’ve been playing with Iteratees lately in my work with Dave on fracture-io. The Iteratee module used in this post is part of the FSharpx library and provides a set of types and functions for building compositional, input processing components. A fold, by[...]

In F#, you have the choice of using a struct or a record as a lightweight container for data. The similarities between the two are striking – both are immutable by default, neither can be inherited, and they both offer structural equality semantics by def[...]

In my previous post on discriminated unions, I presented discriminated unions as an alternative to standard .Net classes to represent hierarchical data structures. However, in terms of data structure, discriminated unions share much more similarities with[...]

I’ve renamed the dotnet-console project on github to isop. Isop is the swedish name for hyssop. Like any spice it is intended to give flavor to the development of command line apps in .net.

The VP of our Developer Division, S. Somasegar, has written a great blog entry on the new programming language technologies in Visual Studio 11. There is a great section on F# which really highlights the innovations that we continue to bring to the produc[...]