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F#: History, Today, Tomorrow

Presented by Don Syme on Mar 11, 2011 Length 01:01:25     Download: MP3
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F# ,
.NET Languages ,
SPLASH 2010 ,
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Functional Programming ,
.NET ,
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Summary
Don Syme discusses the history of F#, how it came about, the current status of the language, especially its simple model supporting parallel and asynchronous programming, and a preview of F# 3.0.

Bio
Don Syme has had a major contribution to the design of F#. He has also participated in the design of C# generics and .NET CLR. He joined Microsoft Research in 1998 and has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in 1999.

About the conference
SPLASH's mission is to engage software innovators from all walks of life -- developers, academics and undeclared -- in conversations about bettering software. Bettering software involves new ideas about programming languages, tools, conceptual models, and methodologies that can cope with, evolve, and leverage, the complex software-intensive socio-technical system of systems that has emerged in front of our eyes during the past decades. Bettering software requires a deep understanding of the nature of these systems, an understanding that rides on the trends of the moment, but that goes well beyond. These are the topics of SPLASH.
Using F# with Solver Foundation was a revelation by Faisal Waris Posted
Some slides are missing... by Rodrigo Elias Posted
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    Using F# with Solver Foundation was a revelation

    by Faisal Waris

    One of my recent revelations about F# was how well Microsoft Solver Foundation and F# go together.

    Solver Foundation is Microsoft’s entry into mathematical modeling and optimization (linear programming, constraint programming, etc.).

    The revelation was that with F# the model intent remained clear in code and the code was very readable.

    I had previously used C# with Solver but the model intent was lost in the jumble of api calls.

    Solver Foundation comes with an F# wrapper which I think key to enabling such transparent model code.

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    Some slides are missing...

    by Rodrigo Elias

    Slides dont show after 40 min.
    The link to Don's blog (in the end of the video) is wrong(the presented url is ok, the hyperlink is incorrect).