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Video: Don Syme - Intro to F#

27 points by Stasyan 16y ago

alrex021 16y ago
mac + chrome + silverlight == fail "can't watch the video, no silverlight support"
- dododo 16y ago
  linux + firefox + no silverlight = redirect to: http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/4/5/0/2/1/5/C9LecturesDonSymeFSharpP1_ch9.mp4 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/4/5/0/2/1/5/C9LecturesDo...
  - j23tom 16y ago
    http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx
  - brianto2010 16y ago
    Just noticed: there is a "media download" option towards the bottom right of the video.
- blaix 16y ago
  Same setup here but it just says "missing plugin"
sigzero 16y ago
I really don't need yet another language to program on Windows.
- icco 16y ago
  Especially one as painful and buggy as f#.
  - dschobel 16y ago
    Care to substantiate that statement?
    - icco 16y ago
      Not really. I developed in it for about three months for a financial company, and compared to all of the other ML derivatives I have used (SML/NJ and OCaml) I found it frustrating to program in and some of the libraries to be broken and/or fragile. But what it really comes down to is that it is one of the few languages that was truly painful and boring to code in.
giu 16y ago
The C9 Lectures are awesome. I personally liked the C9 Lectures from Dr. Erik Meijer about Functional Programming Fundamentals. He uses Haskell to guide you through the fundamentals, so it's also a chance to have a look at the language itself (The lecture's based on the book Programming in Haskell, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html). There are 13 parts, and you can start with the lecture by watching the first part here: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Lecture-Series-Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-Fundamentals-Chapter-1/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Lecture-Series-Eri... On a sidenote: the enthusiasm Dr. Meijer spreads during the whole lectures is somehow contagious; he's done a very good job with these lectures IMHO.
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robryan 16y ago
What's the general opinion on F#? From my limited knowledge it seems to be taking the good concepts from more obscure or academic functional languages and making them easier to implement with the help of the existing .NET infrastructure.
- logicalmind 16y ago
  For all intents and purposes, it is OCaml on .NET. I currently work in a .NET shop and it has made functional programming a real possibility when using the .NET stack. Combine that with the functional capabilities of C# and you have a real possibility of at least some of the features of functional languages becoming mainstream. I am hopeful.
  - robryan 16y ago
    Hopefully, from my personal experience when I was interning in a .NET shop I first heard of F#. Didn't ask them at the time but it seemed like even just making a choice between VB and C# on most projects wasn't an option. Wonder now if they would allow F# for project.
    - logicalmind 16y ago
      My experience is the same, but you have to think that F# would be a possibility much more so than Lisp/Haskell/Erlang/etc. would be.
- fleitz 16y ago
  I absolutely adore F#. It's basically a direct port of OCaml, in the earlier versions if you omitted #light then it was basically OCaml. I personally very much enjoy the pipe operator (|>) which lets you pass the output of one function as the input of another.

27 points by Stasyan 16y ago

alrex021 16y ago

mac + chrome + silverlight == fail "can't watch the video, no silverlight support"

dododo 16y ago
linux + firefox + no silverlight = redirect to: http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/4/5/0/2/1/5/C9LecturesDonSymeFSharpP1_ch9.mp4 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/4/5/0/2/1/5/C9LecturesDo...
- j23tom 16y ago
  http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx
- brianto2010 16y ago
  Just noticed: there is a "media download" option towards the bottom right of the video.
blaix 16y ago
Same setup here but it just says "missing plugin"

sigzero 16y ago

I really don't need yet another language to program on Windows.

icco 16y ago
Especially one as painful and buggy as f#.
- dschobel 16y ago
  Care to substantiate that statement?
  - icco 16y ago
    Not really. I developed in it for about three months for a financial company, and compared to all of the other ML derivatives I have used (SML/NJ and OCaml) I found it frustrating to program in and some of the libraries to be broken and/or fragile. But what it really comes down to is that it is one of the few languages that was truly painful and boring to code in.

giu 16y ago

The C9 Lectures are awesome. I personally liked the C9 Lectures from Dr. Erik Meijer about Functional Programming Fundamentals. He uses Haskell to guide you through the fundamentals, so it's also a chance to have a look at the language itself (The lecture's based on the book Programming in Haskell, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html). There are 13 parts, and you can start with the lecture by watching the first part here: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Lecture-Series-Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-Fundamentals-Chapter-1/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Lecture-Series-Eri... On a sidenote: the enthusiasm Dr. Meijer spreads during the whole lectures is somehow contagious; he's done a very good job with these lectures IMHO.

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robryan 16y ago

What's the general opinion on F#? From my limited knowledge it seems to be taking the good concepts from more obscure or academic functional languages and making them easier to implement with the help of the existing .NET infrastructure.

logicalmind 16y ago
For all intents and purposes, it is OCaml on .NET. I currently work in a .NET shop and it has made functional programming a real possibility when using the .NET stack. Combine that with the functional capabilities of C# and you have a real possibility of at least some of the features of functional languages becoming mainstream. I am hopeful.
- robryan 16y ago
  Hopefully, from my personal experience when I was interning in a .NET shop I first heard of F#. Didn't ask them at the time but it seemed like even just making a choice between VB and C# on most projects wasn't an option. Wonder now if they would allow F# for project.
  - logicalmind 16y ago
    My experience is the same, but you have to think that F# would be a possibility much more so than Lisp/Haskell/Erlang/etc. would be.
fleitz 16y ago
I absolutely adore F#. It's basically a direct port of OCaml, in the earlier versions if you omitted #light then it was basically OCaml. I personally very much enjoy the pipe operator (|>) which lets you pass the output of one function as the input of another.