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MSBuild and #Develop Support Moves F# Closer to Production Quality
Robert Pickering has been hard at work trying to turn F# into a production-grade language. Since that means tool support, he has developed a MSBuild provider and a #Develop plug-in for F#.
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The "use" Binding In F# and How It Should Be Applied To C# and VB
Possible enhancements for F# show how VB and C# can also change in the future.
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The Roots of C# 3.0: F# and C-Omega
Tomas Petricek talks about C# 3.0 and the languages that led to many of its new features. The two languages that most inspired C# 3.0, F# and C-Omega, are discussed in detail along with how the features changed as they moved from the research languages to C#.
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F#: Two Remarkable Years
The functional programming language F# was first announced by Don Syme of Microsoft Research in 2005. Two years after its release, it has already made significant progress towards becoming mainstream. One of its most noteworthy achievements is that it was used by the DOE Joint Genome Institute to create Darren Platt calls "the fastest genome assembly viewer I've ever seen".