I often think of why I feel that it’s important to have a functional language—not just write code that’s pseudo-functional in an imperative language.  As I think this through, I wanted to record some of my ideas on the subject. Even the best developers I’[...]

Jon Harrop, who is a strong advocate for functional programming, recently tweeted some links to questions on programmers.stackexchange.com (here and here) I’m generalizing a bit (not much though) but the basic substance of these questions amounted to “Why[...]

So recently some of us were discussing the fact that F# 3.0 is going to add a feature to make it more amenable to OO programmers.  F# 3.0 will add automatic “getters” and “setters” for members of a class. A small digression; I prefer the terms “inspector”[...]

I have a few quick rules of thumb which I follow when writing code.  Nothing earth-shaking or non-obvious; just simple ways that I avoid making the worst and most obvious mistakes. If you use a number or a string more than once, make it a constant.  Maybe[...]