Brian Beckman over at c9 has implemented a reactive version of the classic Viterbi algorithm using System.IObserver. It seems that Viterbi is natrually suited to this type of an implementation because it deals with events (observations) over time so this [...]

System.Xml.Linq provides a nice, functional way of querying XML however with F# operator overloading we can create a nice mini DSL to have even cleaner code for XML querying. With this DSL we can mimic XPath and XQuery quite closely. … Continue reading →

In the previous post I explained, at a very high level, that monads are really about function composition with side activities. In this post, I will use an example based on F#’s Async monad to demonstrate practical uses of monads. … Continue reading →

As a late comer to functional programming (FP), I struggled a fair bit with understanding monads at first. The ‘aha’ moment for me was that monads are really about function composition. Function composition is somewhat of an alien concept for … Continue r[...]