{"id":2845,"date":"2010-07-09T07:39:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2845-don-syme-on-f.html"},"modified":"2010-07-09T07:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T06:39:12","slug":"don-syme-on-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2845-don-syme-on-f.html","title":{"rendered":"Don Syme on F#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/articles\/don-syme-on-f-microsofts-functional-programming-language-for-net\">posted a lengthy interview<\/a> with Don Syme, designer of Microsoft\u2019s functional programming language F#. It covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The genesis of F# <\/li>\n<li>Why it is in Visual Studio 2010<\/li>\n<li>How it differs from other ML languages <\/li>\n<li>Who should use it <\/li>\n<li>What it brings to parallel and asynchronous programming<\/li>\n<li>Unit testing F#<\/li>\n<li>Future plans for F#<\/li>\n<li>Book recommendations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the questions is: if I\u2019m a C# or C++ developer, what practical, business-benefit reason is there to look at F#? Worth a read if you\u2019ve wondered about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve posted a lengthy interview with Don Syme, designer of Microsoft\u2019s 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2845-don-syme-on-f.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don Syme on F#<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,67,80],"tags":[379,586,957],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-professional","category-software-development","tag-f","tag-microsoft","tag-visual-studio-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}