Wisdom and Wonder » F# http://www.wisdomandwonder.com Computer Science and Personal Philosophy Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:46:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 IntelliFactory http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/88/intellifactory http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/88/intellifactory#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:24:22 +0000 Grant http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/88/intellifactory IntelliFactory is a company that facilitates the adoption of functional programming, in particular, F#.

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]]> http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/88/intellifactory/feed 2 One reason why F Sharp is exciting http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/8/one-reason-why-f-sharp-is-exciting http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/8/one-reason-why-f-sharp-is-exciting#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:02:07 +0000 Grant http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/8/one-reason-why-f-sharp-is-exciting One of the most common reasons cited for not learning more about functional programming is the lack of both good libraries and good development environments. This is a little bit surprising, because when it comes to learning a language, these two features are likely to have the least impact on the learning process. Despite that, this lament continues; there must be more to it!

Programmers, like most folks today, are largely short on time. Wherever they invest it, they expect a good return. When it comes to programming, every programmer hopes that the investment he makes in learning a new language has at least a fighting chance at being applied to solving a billable problem.

F# completely blows away these two huge barriers to folks learning more about functional programming: it has complete access to the .NET platform and has excellent integration with Visual Studio .NET.

This is very, very exciting: even if a programmer never ends up using a functional programming language for billing work, he will have had a lot of fun learning a new paradigm, and will be a better programmer for it!

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