Inspired by the minimalists I tried this out on the arduino: int speakerPin = 11; void outp(byte value) {     analogWrite(speakerPin, value); delayMicroseconds(200); } void setup() {     pinMode(speakerPin, OUTPUT);     // Set up Timer 2 to do pulse width[...]

Background Back in 2004, I was doing some code-generation work as part of the OBIWAN project. When I started, CodeDom was being used to do the work, but I really didn’t like it because it made the generator code very hard to read and modify. Realisticall[...]

By default, tuples, discriminated unions and records have what is known as structural equality – i.e. if two instances of these types have the same set of values then they are considered equal, just like value types – despite being reference types: Tuples[...]

I know this post isn’t of my usual technical type, but I hope you’ll bear with me while I share an idea I’ve been thinking about. Starting way back with SETI@Home, scientists have been borrowing our computer time in exchange for awesomely nerdy screen sav[...]

Pattern matching is everywhere in F#, you can use it in let bindings, in function parameters, in for loops, everywhere, and it is totally amazing. It is in my opinion one of the best features of F#, and in functional languages in general, heck, Erlang goe[...]

Writing compilers is not a really a niche activity. If you think of it, every programmer is doing precisely that, defining a specific language for a given domain and then explaining its semantics to the computer. F#, ML and Haskell programmers know that[...]

Ayande posted a tax calculation challenge the other day here, and here’s my F# solution for the challenge: Enjoy!