Comments for Advances in Programming Languages http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse Lecture log and discussion Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Comment on Lecture 10: Bridging Query and Programming Languages by Ian Stark http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/2010/10/lecture-10-bridging-queries-and-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Ian Stark Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:51:11 +0000 http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/?p=401#comment-100 You're right that the numbers aren't huge. The drop in ranking might be because it did have a surge about a year ago, when entry into VS2010 was becoming well known: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/fsharp.do Remember, this is a language that until this year wasn't commercially supported anywhere at all. You’re right that the numbers aren’t huge. The drop in ranking might be because it did have a surge about a year ago, when entry into VS2010 was becoming well known:

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/fsharp.do

Remember, this is a language that until this year wasn’t commercially supported anywhere at all.

]]> Comment on Lecture 10: Bridging Query and Programming Languages by Ian Stark http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/2010/10/lecture-10-bridging-queries-and-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Ian Stark Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:48:03 +0000 http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/?p=401#comment-99 Video, excellent. There are videos of interviews with Don Syme here: http://fsharpnews.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction-to-f-with-don-syme-part-1.html Video, excellent. There are videos of interviews with Don Syme here:

http://fsharpnews.blogspot.com/2010/10/introduction-to-f-with-don-syme-part-1.html

]]> Comment on Lecture 10: Bridging Query and Programming Languages by s1036238 http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/2010/10/lecture-10-bridging-queries-and-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-98 s1036238 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:48:44 +0000 http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/?p=401#comment-98 http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html but it seems that not so many programmer are using f# now though it is provided as one of the main languages in vs2010. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
but it seems that not so many programmer are using f# now though it is provided as one of the main languages in vs2010.

]]> Comment on Lecture 10: Bridging Query and Programming Languages by s1036238 http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/2010/10/lecture-10-bridging-queries-and-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-97 s1036238 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:45:08 +0000 http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/?p=401#comment-97 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/fsharp/ff759495.aspx#FT The tutorial video provided by Microsoft. I find the one at the bottom quite useful because the speaker is the creator of the language. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/fsharp/ff759495.aspx#FT
The tutorial video provided by Microsoft. I find the one at the bottom quite useful because the speaker is the creator of the language.

]]> Comment on Lecture 10: Bridging Query and Programming Languages by Ian Stark http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/2010/10/lecture-10-bridging-queries-and-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Ian Stark Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:31:35 +0000 http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/aplcourse/?p=401#comment-96 As an introduction, I thought this was a bit indigestible --- after all, it starts with a table of sixteen different basic datatypes. The later chapters, on specific language features, seem much more approachable, like this one: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming/Values_and_Functions As an introduction, I thought this was a bit indigestible — after all, it starts with a table of sixteen different basic datatypes. The later chapters, on specific language features, seem much more approachable, like this one:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming/Values_and_Functions

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