Category Archives: f#

Learning a New Language

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Gaius

Generally, every program I write, regardless of what useful thing it actually does, and regardless of what programming language it is written in, has to do certain things, which usually includes Importing a library and calling functions contained within that … Continue reading →

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Jack of all trades → Master of Disaster.

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Gaius

When I got started in the industry†, like many people I was a generalist; designing and programming GUIs, network services, systems and database administration, even a bit of Photoshop, account management (the other sort of clients!) and end-user support. I … Continue reading →

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And while I’m on the subject…

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Gaius

Following on from Sunday’s post, which was really about using overly generic solutions to actually quite specific problems (e.g. a full-featured message bus when all anyone really cares about is data change notification), there are some other things that are … Continue reading →

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F#

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Gaius

Microsoft releases F# under an Open Source license. That’s pretty huge.

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