Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to different ...

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 ...