An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme

OCatenac passes along an interview with Don Syme, chief designer of F#, which is Microsoft Research's offering for functional programming on the .Net platform. Like Scala, which we discussed last fall, F# aims at being an optimal blend of functional and object-oriented languages. "[Q] What is the best program you've seen written in F#? [A] I've mentioned the samples from F# for Scientists, which are very compelling... For commercial impact then the uses of F# in the finance industry have been very convincing, but probably nothing beats the uses of F# to implement statistical machine learning algorithms as part of the Bing advertisement delivery machinery. ... We've recently really focused on ensuring that programming in F# is simple and intuitive. For example, I greatly enjoyed working with a high-school student who learned F#. After a few days she was accurately modifying a solar system simulator, despite the fact she'd never programmed before. You really learn a lot by watching a student at that stage."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/0059233/An-Interview-With-F-Creator-Don-Syme?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/07/0059233"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/02/07/0059233/An-Interview-With-F-Creator-Don-Syme?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RN1ZOz1j74PsgJx1GjiACueqklQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RN1ZOz1j74PsgJx1GjiACueqklQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RN1ZOz1j74PsgJx1GjiACueqklQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RN1ZOz1j74PsgJx1GjiACueqklQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/D-XeMt9P18M" height="1" width="1"/

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