PLNews: Programming Language News

F# 1.9.2.7 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: support for a slicing syntax, support for named and optional arguments, language constructs for 'computation expressions', library constructs for 'asynchronous workflows', pattern matching on 64-bit numbers, bug fixes, and other changes.

Robert Pickering has announced that his 'Foundations of F#' book will soon be available. Its first printing run will finish on May 25, 2007.

F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

F# 1.9.1.9 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: support for overloaded numeric conversion functions, support for checked arithmetic, updates to the FLinq sample, plus other changes and bug fixes.

The F#.NET Journal has been announced. "The articles cover a wide range of topics, including an introduction to functional programming, pattern matching, the .NET platform and more advanced material demonstrating the use of the F# interactive mode for data dissection and visualization."

F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

F# 1.9.1 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: support for active patterns, support for implicit class construction, changes to the F# Quotation library, attributes for C interoperability, syntactic improvements, plus other changes and fixes.

Don Syme has announced that drafts of chapters 2 to 7 of his upcoming 'Expert F#' book are now available. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

F# 1.1.13 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: support for range comprehensions, 'for' loops over enumerables, C-style syntax for native functions, support for pattern matching on arrays, library enhancements, plus other changes.

Jon Harrop has announced the creation of his F# News blog. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

Jon Harrop, author of the book 'Objective CAML for Scientists', has announced that he is working on a new book entitled 'F# for Scientists'. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

It has been announced that the book 'Foundations of F#', by Robert Pickering, will be published by Apress in March 2007. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

F# 1.1.12.5 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: a change to the syntax for method applications followed by property/field lookups, updates to the Microsoft.FSharp.Reflection API, operator overloading changes, plus other changes and bugfixes.

A video interview with F# creator Don Syme is now available. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

Don Syme has announced the availability of an early draft of Chapter 2 (~375 KB .doc) of his planned "Expert F#" book. This draft chapter "covers most of the language constructs in tutorial mode, with the exception of object oriented programming, which will be covered in Chapter 3."

F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

F# 1.1.12.3 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: a lightweight syntax option; experimental support for active patterns; new UInt8, Int8, Int16, and UInt16 modules for MLLib; plus other changes and a number of bugfixes.

F# 1.1.11.6 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release candidate includes: namespaces-related changes; null values without type annotations; the implementation of structural comparison, equality, and hashing in F# code; type-qualified discriminator names; BigNum performance improvements; improved compiler optimizations; plus other changes and bugfixes.

Don Syme has announced the creation of hubFS. It aims to be an F# community website, with it being described as "a great place to host F# material that doesn't fit well into an email list or which requires a permanent, searchable home, e.g. blogs, articles, screen shots, forums, code and video."

F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

F# 1.1.10.4 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: the unverifiable type constructor nativeptr for mapping C/C++/C# pointer types, a fix for installing on Visual Studio .NET 2003, plus other changes and fixes.

F# 1.1.10.2 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: a prototype version of F# Interactive; unified, first-class, composable events; quotation processing over raw quoted expressions; improved code generation; Unicode-related fixes; plus other changes and bugfixes.

F# 1.1.8.1 has been released. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

This release includes: a redesign, cleanup and renaming of the expression quotation library; a redesign of the math library; a sample showing how F# can work with LINQ; all the source code to F#, the library and the tools; plus other changes and bugfixes.

F# 1.1.5.2 has been released. F# is an OCaml-like language for the .NET platform.

This release includes: 64-bit support, named arguments for attributes, abstract properties and properties in interfaces, F# Interactive performance and correctness improvements, plus bugfixes and other changes.