Did you know you can use F# type providers to access thousands of statistical packages from R, with auto-complete and documentation? Those of you into data analysis will be aware of the use of the R system by statisticians and other data workers. The F# community and BlueMountain Capital have created a type provider for F#-R interop which embeds all installed R packages directly into F#, with intellisense.  See the  example below.  This demonstrates the great flexibility and applicability of the F# 3.0 typ[...]

See http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~psw12/ The Web of Data is growing at an enormous pace. However, the development of dedicated software applications, capable to deal efficiently in information-rich spaces, of which the Semantic Web is one dimension, is notyet mainstream. Reasons for that include one (or more) of the following research issues: lack of integrated development environments (IDEs, such as Visual Studio and Eclipse), poor programming language support, lack of standardtestbeds and/or benchmarks, ina[...]

  The ICFP Programming Contest for 2012 starts tomorrow. I'm sure all F# followers know that a team using F# programming picked up first place in 2011. Announcement slide below. The competition organizers have ordained Linux Debian as the execution environment this year. Kevn and gang are resolving exactly what F# and Mono support will look like.  Hopefully it will be all in place for the kick off. But to users of all languages - good luck! Don    

If you're writing an academic paper or journal, what should you reference for F#?  Well, of course it's up to you! :-) But the topic came up here at MSR Cambridge this evening (after all, it is that time of year - POPL deadline!) Here are some options. I've included a BibTex reference for Expert F# further below since it's not so easy to find an auto-generated one on the usual sites. For F# as a language, I recommend referencing either Expert F# (for the earliest, end-to-end description of the language)[...]

This is the first blog in a series to help F# programmers keep up-to-date with different ways of doing numerically-oriented programming with F#. The first posts in this series will focus on the open source Math.NET Numerics library. Math.NET Numerics is an opensource numerical library for F# and C# on .NET and Mono, including implementations of .NET supporting .NET portable code (Metro and Silverlight). Math.NET Numerics is the numerical foundation of the Math.NET project, aiming to provide methods and alg[...]