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    New Programming Language: F#

    Microsoft Research – Emerging Technology, Computer, and Software Research
    http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.htm
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    It's a Caml implementation for .NET, with some additions. It interoperates, just like the 20+ other .NET languages, seamlessly.

    You can use C#, C++, Objective C, VB, etc. code through F# rather seamlessly -- .NET doesn't care what language the other code is int.

    .NET keeps getting better and better.

    ExtremeTech has an article that explains more about F# here: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1102882,00.asp
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      huh?

      I know Java and a little C and C++. What's this stuff?

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        UR: Insightful as ever.

        skywalker: F# is fundamentally different from languages like C, C++, and Java: It's a "functional" language. It's more akin to FORTRAN, COBOL, or Pascal than any other languages (or maybe Scheme).

        It revolves closely around mathematical operations rather than changing the state of machines and objects like Java and C++.
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          Sort of like TI-BASIC? I know that too

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            (or maybe Scheme).
            Something about a Scheme-like language just fails to excite me... oh yeah, I hate Scheme.
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              Originally posted by skywalker
              Sort of like TI-BASIC? I know that too
              oh yeah! *pelvic thrust* Im the master at text-based TI-83 games...
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              • #8
                scheme sucks

                but new fortran rocks

                so this could be cool

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                • #9
                  Yay, we need yet another programming language! Looks like Basic. Must be very powerful. I like especially the link to this F# website. Beware people, who can not spell "Tutorial".

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                    The name F# is a wise choice. It reminds me of a word which applies to FORTRAN as well as some software company who thinks the world just waits to be flooded with new programming languages and more crap. The word is banned on Apolyton.
                    Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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                      who can not spell "Tutorial"
                      Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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                      • #12
                        Yea, don't use the F# word!

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                          Bah, F# is nothing. I can hit an A# on a good day, which for a baritone ain't half bad!
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                            Originally posted by Asher
                            skywalker: F# is fundamentally different from languages like C, C++, and Java: It's a "functional" language. It's more akin to FORTRAN, COBOL, or Pascal than any other languages (or maybe Scheme).
                            FORTRAN, COBOL and Pascal are imperative languages, just like C or java.

                            But is seems to be very close to ML, from the code eksamples. And ML is indeed a functional language.

                            Btw, ML rulez .
                            http://www.hardware-wiki.com - A wiki about computers, with focus on Linux support.

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                              one of my professors helped develop ml.

                              in a lecture for c/c++, he talked about how much better ml was instead.
                              B♭3

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