Re: [Jscheme-devel] F# ...

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

At 10:59 AM 5/23/2003 -0400, Tim Hickey wrote:
>Microsoft research has an interesting new language, F#,
>  http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.htm
>that looks like OCAML with Jscheme-like access to C# and .NET
>libraries. Like Jscheme they can't create new classes or
>interfaces. They need to explicitly add casting to get programs
>to typecheck sometimes.
>
>I haven't played with it, but it looks interesting.

Hi Tim,

I read a nice paper on F# a while ago.  The nice thing is you can do real lazy functional stuff that would be much harder to do directly in C#.  I think the example they used was a prime sieve written as an infinite stream.  But you could also do functional parsers and other cool stuff.  

It would be interesting to see how C# API's could be wrapped to become more expressive in F#, as we have done for JScheme.  More evidence for the little language hypothesis.

k