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F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework. It combines the succinct, expressive, and compositional style of functional programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET.

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The F# Language Specification
Get all the nitty-gritty details of the F# language from the draft F# language specification. Provides a in-depth description of the F# language's syntax and semantics. Also available in PDF.

F# Microsoft Research Site
Additional F#-related content can be found at the Microsoft Research F# site, as well as links to previous releases of F#.

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F# September 2008 CTP Announcement
The F# CTP has been released. Don Syme describes the key new features of this new version of F#.
by Don Syme
F# in 20 Minutes - Tutorial Part I
Tutorial, introducing the reader into the new world of F#.

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F# Community Blogs

Discoveries This Week 01/09/2008
It’s been a very exiting week. I actually had more things to post than time would allow me to write about. I’ll have to save them for next time. Blog: Daniel Spiewak’s What is Hindley-Milner? (and why... more
Thursday, Jan 8
How I do Continuous Integration with my C# / F# projects - part III: Running automated UnitTests
In the last two posts I showed how to set up a Subversion (part I: Setting up Source Control) and a TeamCity server (part II: Setting up a Continuous Integration Server). This time I will show how we... more
Wednesday, Jan 7
How I do Continuous Integration with my C# / F# projects - part II: Setting up a Continuous Integration Server
In the last post I showed how easy it is to install Subversion and how it can be integrated into Visual Studio 2008 via AnkhSVN. This time we will set up a Continuous Integration server and configure... more
Wednesday, Jan 7
Parsing CSV Files in F#
Work has presented me with a small data manipulation exercise. That’s another opportunity to do some more scripting in F#! This time I’m processing some Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files.... more
Wednesday, Jan 7 by Mark
The DLR is the Language of Languages
The more I study the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), the more I am convinced that it deserves to be the centerpiece of Microsoft's .NET 4.0 strategy. I am a statically typed languages guy. Or at leas... more
Tuesday, Jan 6 by kevin

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F# Team Blogs

F# Forum

appeal to provide 64-bit FSI.exe
...so that one could load unmanaged 64-bit DLLs interactively.
Thank you.
Igor

Friday, Jan 9 by rych
Define as a syntactic function ??
Hi I'd appreciate an explaination as to what the term 'syntactic function' means. e.g. let test x = printfn "n" let finall x = x : 'a -> unit let i... more
Tuesday, Nov 18 by mamdls

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F# Projects from CodePlex

StiLib
StiLib is a Stimulus Library for neurobiology research. It handles the low-level work for windowing, common stimulus generation and communication with other computer or hardware through LAN or paral... more
Tuesday, Jan 6 by CodePlex
FSharpChess
This is a conversion of SharpChess to F#
Wednesday, Dec 31 by CodePlex
FP Interpreter (Silverlight) and Wiki
Implementation of John Backus's programming language FP in Silverlight and F#.Based on original ocaml project by Christophe Deleuzehttp://christophe.deleuze.free.fr/D/fp.h... more
Sunday, Dec 21 by CodePlex

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F# Samples from Code Gallery

Excel Financial functions for .NET
What is it?This is a .NET library that contains all the financial functions of Excel. Its main goal is Excel compatibility. This is not a wrapper over the Excel library, the function has been completely rewritten in managed code. You don't ne... more
Thursday, Dec 4 by MSDN Code Gallery
F# for Windows Azure
Templates and samples for using F# to build worker roles for cloud computing using Windows Azure.
Tuesday, Oct 28 by MSDN Code Gallery

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