Tech Mesh London 2012 / How F# Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data"

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The world of data speaks a different language than the world of programming languages. It uses REST, SQL database schema, XML, JSON while programming languages only understand types and classes. This causes big confusion when we try to access data from programming languages, especially from those with (otherwise very useful) static type systems. How can a programming language learn to understand data? In this talk, I'll show how this is done using type providers in F# 3.0. You'll see how integrating data into the programming language opens the possibilities for creating exciting applications. Talk objectives: Explain the mismatch between data and programming languages and show how this can be solved by an extensibility mechanism like F# type providers. Target audience: Anyone who writes software that works with data including programmers, architects, analysts and data scientists.

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Tomas Petricek (tomas.petricek)

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Tomas Petricek is a long time F# enthusiast, using F# since the early Microsoft Research versions. He has been a Microsoft C# MVP since 2004, and together with Jon Skeet wrote Real-world Functional Programming which explains basic functional concepts using C# 3.0 (teaching F# alongside) and which shows several appealing real-world uses of F# and functional techniques. He also contributed to the development of F# during two internships at Microsoft Research.

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Tech Mesh London 2012
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Dec 4-6, 2012
The Alternative Programming Conference
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Progressive F# Tutorials - New York City 2012
New York
Jun 5-6, 2012
Join us for this 2-day, 2-track F# event, packed with hands-on tutorials covering the latest developments in the fast moving world of F# Programming. Whether new to F# or seasoned veteran, be ready for an action packed two day adventure.
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In the brain of Phil Trelford,Tomas Petricek
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May 14, 2012
Tonight we have two talks, Phil Trelford on F# for Commodities Trading and Tomas Petricek on F# for Finance.
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Functional Programming eXchange 2012
London
Mar 16, 2012
Join Robert Pickering, David Pollak, Erik Hesselink, Loic Denuziere, Kevin Wright, Andres Löh, Tomas Petricek, Miles Sabin, Bruce Durling, and some 100 others passionate about Functional Programming.
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Teaching F#: From numerical expressions to 3D graphics
Online
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
One of the key concepts of functional programming is compositionality – the fact that we can build complex software using several basic “building blocks” and just a few ways of combining them. In this talk, I’ll demonstrate how we can teach this concept us...
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The design side of programming language design
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