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Archive for August, 2007

F# with MSBuild Task

Posted by Chance Coble on August 31, 2007

Foundations Author Robert Pickering has posted a method for using F# with MSBuild. 
Read all about it:

http://strangelights.com/blog/archive/2007/08/27/1593.aspx

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O’Reilly book attempts to put Haskell skills in the real world

Posted by Chance Coble on August 31, 2007

If you haven’t heard of it, Haskell is a pure functional language.  Haskell really holds my interest. This is largely because it has a rich history in proving that functional programming is feasible (this argument has been raging for about thirty years … and functional programming has undoubtedly proven useful).

Because of its purity, it has been known to come with a steep learning curve. However, O’Reilly has a forthcoming book on Haskell in the “real world” which includes sections on multithreading, database and network programming as well as gui programming. Sounds like a great read … although I am not sure what “world” I was programming in when I was using Haskell.

Here is the link:

http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2007/05/23/real-world-haskell-its-time/

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