Re: next talk after Clojure?

["Steve Eichert" <steve.eichert@gmail.com>]

While I don't expect to change your opinion of anything Microsoft being "pure evil" it is worth mentioning that F# does run on Mono.  For those of you unfamiliar with Mono it's a "cross platform, open source .NET development framework."  Perhaps that makes it less of an "EPIC FAIL"?

www.mono-project.com

~ Steve

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Scott Fraser <Scott.E.Fraser@gmail.com> wrote:

+1 for F#, despite it being the spawn of pure evil. I just want to
know what the enemy is up to.

Also be nice to cover the the differences at the VM level - does the
current .NET runtime have better support than the JVM for functional
languages? Tail call instructions? etc...

(for example http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/tail_calls_in_the_vm)

In my book any functional language, BECAUSE it is on and unique to a
Microsoft managed runtime, is automatic EPIC FAIL. But that being said
Microsoft has been trying to make some interesting moves with .NET
(Silverlight's support for Smalltalk, Ruby, Python, etc...) so it's
worth checking out just to be aware.

-Scott

On Nov 10, 3:17 pm, "Toby DiPasquale" <codeslin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.bur...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>
> > I know its a .NET language, but reading
> >http://spotless-spots.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-i-like-f.htmlhas got
> > me interested in seeing F# in action by an experienced .NET developer.
>
> > Does anyone have enough experience to give a talk and demonstration on
> > F#?  Or know someone from outside the group we could invite to do it?
>
> > Are others in the group interested in F# enough to have it be a Philly
> > Lambda talk?
>

> I'd sure be interested in seeing an F# talk. Can't give, as I have no
> .NET experience or anything like that, but love to hear what all the
> fuss is about.
>
> --
> Toby DiPasquale