Don Syme on F#

I’ve posted a lengthy interview with Don Syme, designer of Microsoft’s functional programming language F#. It covers:

• The genesis of F#
• Why it is in Visual Studio 2010
• How it differs from other ML languages
• Who should use it
• What it brings to parallel and asynchronous programming
• Unit testing F#
• Future plans for F#
• Book recommendations

One of the questions is: if I’m a C# or C++ developer, what practical, business-benefit reason is there to look at F#? Worth a read if you’ve wondered about that.

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