23-05-2003 09:00									#1
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http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.htm


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

	23-05-2003 09:02									#3
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huh?

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

	23-05-2003 09:04									#4
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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++.

	23-05-2003 09:07									#5
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Sort of like TI-BASIC? I know that too

	23-05-2003 10:01									#6
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quote: (or maybe Scheme).

Something about a Scheme-like language just fails to excite me... oh yeah, I hate Scheme.

	23-05-2003 10:31									#7
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quote: 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...

	23-05-2003 10:45									#8
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scheme sucks

but new fortran rocks

so this could be cool

Jon Miller

	23-05-2003 16:10									#9
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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".

	23-05-2003 17:04									#10
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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.

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quote: who can not spell "Tutorial"

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Yea, don't use the F# word!

	23-05-2003 18:12									#13
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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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quote: 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 .

	23-05-2003 20:12									#15
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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.

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quote: Originally posted by Sir Ralph 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".

What?! You have a problem with teachers coming to work by train
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quote: 'Sir Ralph'; Yea, don't use the F# word!

	24-05-2003 11:41									#17
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quote: Bah, F# is nothing. I can hit an A# on a good day, which for a baritone ain't half bad!

I'm tenor, and I can hit the F# on a good day. You probably don't want to hear it, however

	24-05-2003 11:53									#18
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They just integrated some Caml into .NET. This is not going to spread much.