Microsoft has added a new language to the stable that will be supported by its Visual Studio development platform. The newest member of the family is F#, the hybrid functional/object-oriented language ...

Functional programming is a coding style that emphasizes ideas such as composition from simple building blocks, immutability of data structures and the use of functions as data. In recent years, ideas ...

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The Fable compiler gives developers the opportunity to unite the realms of F# functional programming and JavaScript. In a beta stage of development, Fable leverages F# and uses Babel compilers to ...

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Microsoft is boosting integration of functional programming with its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform. Improved integration is featured in a September Community Technology Preview of ...

Much has been made of Microsoft's embrace of open source and shift toward interoperability and collaboration, and that trend is exemplified in the new preview release of F#. F# is a functional ...

Seattle Central College is expanding its computer offerings with a new class that aims to introduce people in the workforce to programming languages. The class is being taught by the private coding ...