Tomas Petricek Digs Deep into F#
Carl and Richard talk to Tomas Petricek about functional programming and F# in particular. The conversation starts out talking about type providers, one of the newest features of F#. Tomas digs into other aspects of F#, comparing it to C#, and talks about the functional programming mind set and how it changes the way you think about coding. Check out all the links below for F# resources and community!
Guests:
Tomas Petricek
Tomas is a long-time F# enthusiast, Microsoft MVP and author of a book Real-World Functional Programming (http://manning.com/petricek). He leads functional programming and F# courses in London and New York and contributed to the development of F# as an intern and contractor at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He is currently a PhD student at University of Cambridge, working on context-dependent programming languages.
Links:
- Ten Things Developers Need to be Truly Amazing http://www.netmagazine.com/features/10-things-web-developers-must-know-become-truly-amazing
- Real-World Functional Programming http://manning.com/petricek/
- Tomas' Blog http://tomasp.net/blog/
- F# Deep Dives http://manning.com/petricek2/
- F# in Mono http://tomasp.net/blog/fsharp-in-monodevelop.aspx
- F# Data http://tpetricek.github.com/FSharp.Data/
- Try F# http://www.tryfsharp.org/
- F# Software Foundation http://fsharp.org/
- Diatom Enterprises http://diatomenterprises.com/