F#
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Sometimes I wonder about F#... I remember a while ago I spent the effort of learning all the syntax and then.. I dropped it.. perhaps because I found it hard to interact with F# and not worth the effort for only fuzzy benefit... Can anyone enlighten me and motivate me to give F# another try?
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People that does a lot of math coding seems to like it, as F# give less noisy code.
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Sometimes I wonder about F#... I remember a while ago I spent the effort of learning all the syntax and then.. I dropped it.. perhaps because I found it hard to interact with F# and not worth the effort for only fuzzy benefit... Can anyone enlighten me and motivate me to give F# another try?
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Sometimes I wonder about F#... I remember a while ago I spent the effort of learning all the syntax and then.. I dropped it.. perhaps because I found it hard to interact with F# and not worth the effort for only fuzzy benefit... Can anyone enlighten me and motivate me to give F# another try?
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It's kind of less useful than it once was since C#'s LINQ and lambdas/anonymous methods are pretty mature and together provides functional programming within an imperative language, giving you the best of both worlds, so to speak. F# is geared toward purely functional programming like Scheme or Haskell, and as such is basically a glorified query language. It's great for mathematical style code, or query code, but not much else, honestly. While there's some modicum of state it's not really geared for stateful programming.
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's kind of less useful than it once was since C#'s LINQ and lambdas/anonymous methods are pretty mature and together provides functional programming within an imperative language, giving you the best of both worlds, so to speak. F# is geared toward purely functional programming like Scheme or Haskell, and as such is basically a glorified query language. It's great for mathematical style code, or query code, but not much else, honestly. While there's some modicum of state it's not really geared for stateful programming.
Real programmers use butterflies
yeah I had this feeling too... my amin hobby interest is desktop UI app.. and F# seems to bring little here...
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yeah I had this feeling too... my amin hobby interest is desktop UI app.. and F# seems to bring little here...
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yeah it's really not geared for that. You need state.
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Well, it's three letter "better" than C# ... and that's all I know about it.
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Sometimes I wonder about F#... I remember a while ago I spent the effort of learning all the syntax and then.. I dropped it.. perhaps because I found it hard to interact with F# and not worth the effort for only fuzzy benefit... Can anyone enlighten me and motivate me to give F# another try?
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So You must be waiting for A# then.
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What happened to B flat then?
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What happened to B flat then?
Good Point. Devs don't really like the word "Flat" as it has negative connotations. E.G. Flat Tyre and feeling flat. So probably not such a good name for a programming language. Sharp is well accepted as we think that it refers to our minds, our intelligence and our wit. On the other hand, being a rather sedentary job, I noticed that Bb or B Flat is a supposedly an expensive fat burning belly cream that is supposed to flatten your stomach and remove stretch marks. Just looked this up but I don't believe it. In addition I should add that I know what you are doing here. When A# is finally released, just don't tell the Devs that it has equivalence with Bb, else it is doomed.
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Sometimes I wonder about F#... I remember a while ago I spent the effort of learning all the syntax and then.. I dropped it.. perhaps because I found it hard to interact with F# and not worth the effort for only fuzzy benefit... Can anyone enlighten me and motivate me to give F# another try?
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If [this list of F# attributes](https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/why-use-fsharp/) looks interesting, it might be worth your while giving it another go - otherwise probably not. For me, the [conciseness of F#](https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/conciseness-intro/), together with the [rich type system](https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/designing-with-types/) make it the .NET language I prefer (not that I do much .NET programming - C++ is where I normally live).
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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So You must be waiting for A# then.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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If [this list of F# attributes](https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/why-use-fsharp/) looks interesting, it might be worth your while giving it another go - otherwise probably not. For me, the [conciseness of F#](https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/conciseness-intro/), together with the [rich type system](https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/designing-with-types/) make it the .NET language I prefer (not that I do much .NET programming - C++ is where I normally live).
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
Nice links, thanks! :)
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Sometimes I wonder about F#... I remember a while ago I spent the effort of learning all the syntax and then.. I dropped it.. perhaps because I found it hard to interact with F# and not worth the effort for only fuzzy benefit... Can anyone enlighten me and motivate me to give F# another try?
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
I learned Haskell at school. Never did anything with it, but... It gave me another way of thinking about code and that's priceless. Since I've taken that course, my C# code looks different. I've taken out the global variables and reduced side effects by a lot. Most of my code is just thread-safe by default now. And when it isn't, I know it isn't and I know the implications. If that didn't happen to you after learning F# the last time, it may not have landed and you may want to give it another try. C# isn't a functional language, so you may not reap all the benefits of functional programming, but at least all the best ones :D
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Sometimes I wonder about F#... I remember a while ago I spent the effort of learning all the syntax and then.. I dropped it.. perhaps because I found it hard to interact with F# and not worth the effort for only fuzzy benefit... Can anyone enlighten me and motivate me to give F# another try?
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
Well, shameless self-promotion: [Using an F# DSL to Generate C# code](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5301612/Using-an-Fsharp-DSL-to-generate-Csharp-code) For this kind of scenarios F# shines, imo.
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Well, shameless self-promotion: [Using an F# DSL to Generate C# code](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5301612/Using-an-Fsharp-DSL-to-generate-Csharp-code) For this kind of scenarios F# shines, imo.
Check out my blog at http://msdev.pro/
Interesting sample, will take a deeper look, thanks! :)
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
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Sometimes I wonder about F#... I remember a while ago I spent the effort of learning all the syntax and then.. I dropped it.. perhaps because I found it hard to interact with F# and not worth the effort for only fuzzy benefit... Can anyone enlighten me and motivate me to give F# another try?
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
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I learned Haskell at school. Never did anything with it, but... It gave me another way of thinking about code and that's priceless. Since I've taken that course, my C# code looks different. I've taken out the global variables and reduced side effects by a lot. Most of my code is just thread-safe by default now. And when it isn't, I know it isn't and I know the implications. If that didn't happen to you after learning F# the last time, it may not have landed and you may want to give it another try. C# isn't a functional language, so you may not reap all the benefits of functional programming, but at least all the best ones :D
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I took the same course, with exactly the same results :) And F# is a natural extension to it.
Check out my blog at http://msdev.pro/
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I took the same course, with exactly the same results :) And F# is a natural extension to it.
Check out my blog at http://msdev.pro/
I've read part of an F# book years ago, when it just came out (I think it was F# 2.0). I think the language is beautiful and in some respects ahead of C#, but I've never done anything with it since then :laugh: Sometimes I think F# is the playground for new C# features though.
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