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Agreed. A turing-complete language isn't the ideal choice for smart contracts. A strongly typed ML or Haskell style language would have been a much better choice as a starting poin…

Six to seven foot tall praying mantis like entities are a common element in many alien abduction accounts. They're typically in the background, silently watching the proceedings wh…

If the pattern matching isn't exhaustive, it will greatly reduce their usefulness.

It still has to look C#ish.

But they have the F# and Haskell teams, who are nearby, to talk to. In particular, F# seems to have had a great influence lately.

The C# team are very lucky to have F# as a reference implementation on how to implement ML style features on the .NET platform. I'm certain many more features from F#/OCaml will be…

Using F# would have been a great choice. By using algebraic data types plus active patterns the size of the code base would have been dramatically reduced and much more comprehensi…

There's more to F# then HM type inference plus ".NET's OOP and subtyping". OOP and subtyping are rarely used. While it lacks some of OCaml's powerful features it shares many core f…

Have to agree that Active Patterns are an incredibly useful F# feature.

I would say F# is much safer than C# as it has immutability by default, non-nullable reference types, Option types, units of measure, and stricter casting rules.

So basically, the plan is to turn C# into F# with curly braces.

No. The whole point of going dark is to raise public awareness and to get politicians to take this issue seriously. Unlike the general population, we don't need a wake up call.

One company that's making heavy use of F# is Credit Suisse. They use it in their global modeling and analysis group. The F# based WebSharper web framework: http://websharper.com/ .…

F# doesn't have an in-built iterate function, but found an equivalent on the F# Snippets site -- http://fssnip.net/18 . let rec iterate f value = seq { yield value yield! iterate f…

For the F# developer, WebSharper ( http://websharper.com/ ) seems to offer a great implementation based on the Formlets abstraction. For some theoretical background, have a look at…

For the F# developer, WebSharper ( http://websharper.com/ ) seems to offer a great implementation based on the Formlets abstraction. For some theoretical background, have a look at…