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F# Books

Expert F#
A deep introduction to the F# language and programming techniques. Co-authored by Don Syme, the lead designer of the F# language, this book covers the F# language and libraries, as well as some important areas of applied programming with F#, such as parallel and asynchronous programming, language-oriented programming and working with data.

Three sample chapters are available for preview:

Foundations of F#
An introduction to functional programming with F#. Including many samples, this book walks through the features of the F# language and libraries, and covers many of the .NET Framework features which can be leveraged with F#.

F# for Scientists
Focuses on how F# can be applied to problems in technical and scientific computing. Provides a simple introduction to F#, followed by discussions of topics such as optimization, numerical analysis, interoperability, and visualization.

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F# Articles

Concurrency with MPI in .NET
In my previous post, I looked at some of the options we have for concurrency programming in .NET applications. One of the interesting ones, yet specialized is the Message Passing Interface (MPI). Mi... more
Thursday, Aug 7

Software Transactional Memory for F#
I have written a library for using software transactional memory in F#. The library exposes memory transactions as a monad using F#’s new computation expression feature. It can be downloaded here. So... more
Thursday, Aug 7

Investing in F# - Making the tools and language better still
The F# team at Microsoft Research and Microsoft are currently working hard towards our planned CTP release of F#. This is a follow up to the 1.9.4 release of F# as a research language.
Thursday, Aug 7

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