Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Related Topics
F# 1.1.13 now available!
I’m pleased to announce that F# 1.1.13 is now available! You can download this release from...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/29/2006
Jon Harrop starts an "F# News" blog
Jon Harrop has been busy lately. He's just uploaded his latest F# demo, this time a minimal DirectX...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/23/2006
Three machine learning experts, F# Interactive, IEnumerable, a Terabyte of data and XBox Live...
Ralf, Phil and Thore in the MSR Cambridge Applied Games Group have been continuing their work using...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/22/2006
F# presentation at Czech .NET Group meeting
Tomas has also given an excellent presentation on F# at the local Czech .NET Group Meeting. Here are...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/22/2006
Tomas Petricek "Concepts behind the C# 3.0 language"
Tomas Petricek has written a piece on his take on the concepts behind C# 3.0 and their relationship...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/22/2006
F# for Scientists announced by Jon Harrop
I'm very excited to see that Jon Harrop has announced his intention to produce F# for Scientists....
Author: dsyme Date: 10/23/2006
F# on TIOBE (including a correction)
My good friend Ralf has pointed me at a brief mention of F# on the monthly TIOBE index, a...
Author: dsyme Date: 10/21/2006
Apress announces "Foundations of F#", by Robert Pickering, for March 2007
I'm very excited to see that James Huddleston from Apress has announced the upcoming publication of...
Author: dsyme Date: 10/15/2006
Dominic on Dynamic and Japanese Flash Cards
Two blog entries from Dominic: a short funny one on "dynamic" programming a long one on a Japanese...
Author: dsyme Date: 09/19/2006
F# on Channel 9
Recently I had the pleasure of talking with Mike Hall and a DV Camera for an hour, the end result...
Author: dsyme Date: 09/14/2006
Three Software Developer Positions in Molecular Modelling (OCaml, Visual Studio, .NET, and F# skills likely to be very welcome)
Recently an advertisement that was sent by MEDIT to the OCaml list. The positions are for...
Author: dsyme Date: 09/13/2006
Draft Chapter 2 of "Expert F#": Essential Language Features
[ Note: this post is now out-of-date: drafts of Chapters 2-7 are now available ] I'm very glad to...
Author: dsyme Date: 09/06/2006
Detailed release notes for 1.1.12.3
Detailed release notes for 1.1.12.3 Collected changes between v1.1.11.12 and 1.1.12.3 Lightweight...
Author: dsyme Date: 08/23/2006
Lightweight syntax option in F# 1.1.12.3
We're glad to announce that F# 1.1.12.3 supports the optional use of lightweight syntax through the...
Author: dsyme Date: 08/23/2006
F# 1.1.12 now released!
We're very pleased to announce that F# 1.1.12 is available for download. (note: since the time of...
Author: dsyme Date: 08/23/2006
An upcoming experimental feature: Active Patterns in F#
Greg Neverov (inventor of the C# dialect Metaphor and an intern at MSR Cambridge this summer) has...
Author: dsyme Date: 08/15/2006
Internships at MSR Cambridge (now All-Year-Around)
Are you interested in working for three months at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, on a project...
Author: dsyme Date: 08/12/2006
ASP.NET web applications in F#
Tomas writes on The Hub: ASP.NET web applications in F# CodeDOM and providers CodeDOM (Code Document...
Author: dsyme Date: 08/12/2006
On The Hub: F# and ASP.NET 2.0 (CodeDom provider)
The Microsoft MVP Tomas Petricek has been continuing his exploration of F# LINQ-style quotations to...
Author: dsyme Date: 07/29/2006
Tomas Petricek: F# Presentation and Links
Tomas Petricek has posted his slides and demonstrations from an F# presentation he gave at his...
Author: dsyme Date: 07/15/2006
Recent posts at The Hub
The F# Hub is a community site at www.hubfs.net, and has been full of interesting posts recently....
Author: dsyme Date: 07/08/2006
F# and 3D Graphics with Windows Presentation Framework 3D
Rob has written a fantastic introduction to using F# with Windows Presentation Framework, showing...
Author: dsyme Date: 06/23/2006
F# for Fun: Podcasting in F#
Dominic has trumped me again - while I'm busy writing media-savvy samples like "1+1 = 2" he goes and...
Author: dsyme Date: 06/05/2006
Detailed Release Notes for F# 1.1.11.7
The full change list for F# 1.1.11.6 is below. Here's the list of fixes we've made between F#...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/26/2006
Linear Algebra module with F# and dnAnalytics
Julien Laugel has revamped his sample showing how to use the dnAnalytics library with F#, and it's...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/22/2006
F# 1.1.11 release candidate now available
As reported by the Hub Father, F# 1.1.11.7 is available. This is a "release candidate", which means...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/22/2006
Rob Burke on F#
Rob Burke has just written a blog entry on F#: It was great to have Rob to visit - I first met Rob...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/11/2006
Introducing cs.hubfs.net: a great new F# community initiative takes shape
I’m very glad to announce a new F# community initiative called “The Hub”, hosted at...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/27/2006
F# for games and machine learning: .NET + performance + scripting
Ralf Herbrich is a co-leader of MSR Cambridge's Applied Games Group, which specializes in using...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/31/2006
Minor Update to 1.1.10 (version 1.1.10.4 released)
Just to mention that F# version 1.1.10.4 has been released (in truth it's been up for a week - I...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/23/2006
F# and Quantitative Finance - a presentation
Christopher Barwick (aka optionsScalper) recently gave a talk to the Wisconsin INETA group entitled...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/25/2006
F# 1.1.10.2 installation problem on Visual Studio.NET 2003
F# 1.1.10.2 has an unexpected problem with installation of the Visual Studio support for Visual...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/25/2006
F# 1.1.10 now available
[ Updated Note: Visual Studio 2003 users: this release has an installation problem when used with...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/24/2006
A Taste of F# Interactive in Visual Studio
Here's a taste of some great new functionality that will be in the next release of F#, which we...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/18/2006
Apress Editor Looking for F# Authors
Jim Huddleston at Apress has been looking into F# and has very much liked what he's seen. He's...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/18/2006
FJavaC (a functional Java compiler) now on F# using Mono
Stephen Tse of UPenn has just completed his cross-compilation of FJavaC with F# and OCaml, using F#...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/12/2006
Detailed release notes for F# 1.1.8.1
A summary of the changes and additions for F# between 1.1.5.2 and 1.1.8.1 is as follows: ·...
Author: dsyme Date: 01/26/2006
F# meets LINQ, and great things happen (Part I)
[ Note: a later, more up-to-date post decribes F# Power Pack LINQ support ] In case you haven't...
Author: dsyme Date: 01/26/2006
New: F# Library Documentation and HTML Doc generation
I'm very pleased to announce that the F# library documentation has just made a quantum leap into the...
Author: dsyme Date: 01/11/2006
Chinese Chess in F#
Well, I'm amazed. Out of the blue comes an implementation of Chinese Chess written in 2000 lines of...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/26/2005
F# 1.1.5 detailed release notes
Here are the detailed release notes for F# 1.1.5.2. (Note - new documentation for the F# library...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/11/2005
F# 1.1.5 now available
I'm glad to announce that F# 1.1.5.2 is now available for download from Microsoft Research. This...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/11/2005
JunGL: Implemented in F#
I just noticed that Mathieu Verbaere, Ran Ettinger and Oege de Moor at the University of Oxford have...
Author: dsyme Date: 11/07/2005
F# 1.1.3.2 now available (for VS2005 RTM and Beta2, also VS2003)
F# 1.1.3.2 has been availalbe for some time now - this wraps up a number of bug fixes, especially...
Author: dsyme Date: 10/29/2005
Detailed announcement for F# 1.1.1.6
Here are the detailed release notes for F# 1.1.1.6: Attributes. Specification clarifications for...
Author: dsyme Date: 09/14/2005
F# 1.1.1.6 now available
A second candidate release of F# 1.1 is now available (version 1.1.1.6). This is primarily a bug-fix...
Author: dsyme Date: 09/14/2005
Some praise for F#
F# hits the mark.
Author: dsyme Date: 09/09/2005