New Programming Language: F#

Asher · May 23, 2003, 00:00

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

Urban Ranger · May 23, 2003, 00:02

Kuciwalker · May 23, 2003, 00:02

huh?

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

Asher · May 23, 2003, 00:04

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++.

Kuciwalker · May 23, 2003, 00:07

Sort of like TI-BASIC? I know that too

Victor Galis · May 23, 2003, 01:01

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(or maybe Scheme).

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

Kramerman · May 23, 2003, 01:31

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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...

Jon Miller · May 23, 2003, 01:45

scheme sucks

but new fortran rocks

so this could be cool

Jon Miller

Harovan · May 23, 2003, 07:10

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".

Adalbertus · May 23, 2003, 08:04

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.

Adalbertus · May 23, 2003, 08:06

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who can not spell "Tutorial"

Harovan · May 23, 2003, 08:31

Yea, don't use the F# word!

Boris Godunov · May 23, 2003, 09:12

Bah, F# is nothing. I can hit an A# on a good day, which for a baritone ain't half bad!

Thue · May 23, 2003, 10:21

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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

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Q Classic · May 23, 2003, 11:12

one of my professors helped develop ml.

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

alva · May 23, 2003, 22:20

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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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'Sir Ralph';
Yea, don't use the F# word!

Adalbertus · May 24, 2003, 02:41

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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!

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

LDiCesare · May 24, 2003, 02:53

They just integrated some Caml into .NET. This is not going to spread much.