January 06, 2005

If ever there was any doubt in your mind that there is a God in heaven... this should change everything!

For all you .NET language developers - Don Syme has started an F# blog

Dear God: Thank you! Amen.

I really don't mean to make my chances of ever receiving any sort of decent afterlife even less than they are now but I swear I don't mean this in a sacreligious way! I mean think of it this way:

"I am the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the (C)Omega..."

If ever I have seen a more perfect example of recursion I'm not sure where. Ok, I'm going to hell, that ain't no secret... but until I go at least I get to read from Don Syme's blog and program in F#. And that my friends is not that shabby of a parting gift. (though I would much rather get Heaven of course. I'm just thinking on a more realistic level ;)

From Jonathan Hardwick's post:

F# has been gradually building steam since then, adding the supporting infrastructure that you’d expect from a .NET language (Visual Studio authoring package, ASP.NET compatibility, …) and the cool features you’d expect from a programming language researcher (dynamic type test patterns, mutually dependent reactive values, …). Now it seems ready to take center-stage: Don has started a blog about F#, and his first post announces the preview release of F# version 1.0.