Functional-style control flow in F#
- Jul 17, 2013 · 7:00 PM
Many developers come to F# from the imperative world of C#, where they are accustomed to various loop types, if/else blocks, switches, breaks, and other imperative control flow mechanisms. Some of these concepts are simply not present in F#, and those that are often translate into awkward, verbose F# code.
In this meetup we will discuss a better approach: Using idiomatic, functional-style control flow in your F# code. We'll look at various items in the functional toolbox, including pattern-matching, recursion, and higher-order functions, and see how they can make your code more readable and concise.
Speaker: Lincoln Atkinson, SDET, Microsoft
Lincoln joined the Visual F# team at Microsoft a year ago, having previously worked on the System Center suite of IT management products, followed by some time building Azure services for data analysis and client-side web analytics. He has spoken at the F# Seattle User Group once before, on his experience developing a high-performance, parallel, grep-like Powershell cmdlet in F#. He has a bachelor's and an in-progress master's degree in applied mathematics (and would never trade them for CS degrees! :-).
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Lincoln A.
July 18, 2013
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Matteo T.
I wonder how Tao will manage to attend... I Private jet made available by his new employer? :-)
July 12, 2013
14 went
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Lincoln A.
Event Host
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Matteo T.
Co-Organizer
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Thanks to everyone who came out last night! I've posted the slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/LincolnAtkinson/functional-controlflow-meetup Imperative code examples are here: http://fssnip.net/iO Functional code examples are here: http://fssnip.net/iP