Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft's promotion of F# to a fully-supported language in Visual Studio is also important because of the extreme versatility of the .net platform and Microsoft's Common Language Runtime.
F# began as a Microsoft Research project to demonstrate the importance of .net as a platform for mixing multiple distinct programming models. F# is heavily inspired by the OCaml programming language, and a subset of F# and OCaml are largely compatible. F# is said to have many valuable features without sacrificing much runtime efficiency. F# also has full access to the .NET APIs and components written in other .NET languages.
F# is originated from a series of different imperative and functional languages as are most modern languages including Java and C. I have a question to the readers of this blog. We went from C to C+ to C#. Do we need a new language. Will it make writing code easier and can we do without one? I'm not to big on C#, but if F# can make my life just a little bit easier I'll definitely give it a try!
OCaml's claim to fame is its speed at compile time. Claiming to be approximately 50% faster than other languages. If F# can run at similar speeds, it certainly worth looking into.
ReplyDeleteWriting code 'easier' is kinda dependent on the programmer, writeing code in C, C++ etc, its nessessarily hard given knowledge about the code.
ReplyDeletemoreover i think effeciency can be heavily related to the programmer as well. if they are going to create a program (or function) with time complexity Big O O(1) or O(n), rather then a dismal O(n!) it will run faster, and with processors running exponentially faster f# probabily isnt nessessary, nonetheless fun to look into for sure
Since it is made by Microsoft or .NET environment, does that mean that it will run only on Internet Explorer?
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ReplyDeleteI agree that faster processors may make it unnecessary to use F#, but when you have an application that has fifty thousand lines of code while also trying to present it as web application, it may be beneficial to use F#