Functional Programming FP is hot. Even though its years old in university courses, its getting more attention as Moores Law looms large, and you get the benefits of deductive logic, NLP etc. I read a book on it whilst I was standing in a bookshop. Microsoft are still a software company - the nice thing about F# is that thay made it easy to use this stuff with your other imperative morass of code. FP is something whose time has come, its really interesting to to see that Delphi has integrated generics and anonymous functions at the same time as F# is making a mark. The author of the book I read was predicting that F# may well beecome a dominant language at MS and could topple C# etc. Although I did read elsewhere that dear old VB can never be discounted. K
Richard Vowles wrote: > Its a functional oriented language along the lines of O-CAML. > > There is a huge amount of "other language on the JVM" work going on at > the moment and Microsoft seems to not want its developers feeling left > behind. There is some very good stuff coming out of the research labs > I have heard and the .NET CLR is a better platform for it than the JVM > (which suffers from things like no trail end recursion and things, > which they are looking at fixing). > > 2009/9/16 Jeremy Coulter <jscoul...@gmail.com > <mailto:jscoul...@gmail.com>> > > Whats F# ?? I have not heard of that before. > > What happend to D# and E# ? ;-) > > > > > > -- > --- > Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor > Developers Inc Ltd > web. http://www.developers-inc.co.nz > ph. +64-9-3600231, mob. +64-275-467747, fax. +64-9-3600384 > skype. rvowles, LinkedIn, Twitter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.102/2377 - Release Date: 09/16/09 > 17:49:00 > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
