Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on ...

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Functional programming is a coding style that emphasizes ideas such as composition from simple building blocks, immutability of data structures and the use of functions as data. In recent years, ideas ...

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Microsoft provided updates on its flagship .NET-centric programming languages, C# and F#, during this week's online Build developer conference. Mads Torgersen, C# lead designer on the .NET team, ...

Much has been made of Microsoft's embrace of open source and shift toward interoperability and collaboration, and that trend is exemplified in the new preview release of F#. F# is a functional ...

After more than a year in development, Microsoft released its .NET 5 software development platform on Tuesday, November 10, emphasizing unification of the platform and introducing the C# 9 and F# 5 ...

Microsoft Corp. is boosting integration of functional programming with its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform. Improved integration is featured in a September Community Technology ...

F#, a functional programming language developed by Microsoft Research, is getting a second generation of tools for use with the Visual Studio software development platform. Visual F# Power Tools ...