Thursday, February 25, 2010

Hello (F#) World!

My hobby: trying out new programming languages. Here is Microsoft's F# which is set to become standard in Visual Studio 2010 which is pretty cool (the number of F# jobs will skyrocket, for example). There are a whole host of functional programming languages out there from the rather pure (Haskell) to those with imperative support (OCaml), though the jury is still out on which is the best. I will try to learn it for rather more mundane tasks than it was intended, and hopefully post my progress here. Download the CLI here & command line options here.


printfn "Hello World!"


PS. Syntax highlighting via SyntaxHighlighter with C++ stripes.

Edit: Found an F# brush for SyntaxHighlighter here.

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