F# Basics An Introduction to Functional Programming for .NET Developers

Re:F# Basics An Introduction to Functional Programming for .... by runT1ME on Thursday April 08, 2010 @01:48PM (#1250346)

Thanks for this! Looks like a great language. Its a shame it targets the CLR and Mono is so crippled.

If it was on the JVM, looks like a serious competitor to Scala with some distinct advantages (! operator for sure) along with a little simpler syntax.

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Re:F# Basics An Introduction to Functional Programming for .... by scott_s on Thursday April 08, 2010 @02:46PM (#1250503)

Keep in mind that F# is very similar to OCaml. OCaml compiles to native executables, so while it's not for the JVM, you should be able to use it on most platforms.

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Re:F# Basics An Introduction to Functional Programming for .... by omellet on Thursday April 08, 2010 @04:45PM (#1250845)

How exactly is the CLR crippled?

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Re:F# Basics An Introduction to Functional Programming for .... by bmason on Thursday April 08, 2010 @05:31PM (#1251046)

The statement was that Mono is crippled. Last I checked, Mono was lagging at least one major release behind Microsoft's CLR. So if you're using fancy new features, you'll probably have to refactor to gain cross platform support, and even then you may encounter bugs and memory leaks.

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Re:F# Basics An Introduction to Functional Programming for .... by omellet on Friday April 09, 2010 @07:50AM (#1252406)

You're right, I misread it.

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