The Power of Sample Code
In the culture wars between “Object Oriented Programming” and Functional Programming, you will find proponents of OOP that argue that we are doing fine – why should we change? and proponents of FP that lists a litany of …
Functional
Giraffe F# update
In a previous posthttps://opinionmachine.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/more-f-giraffe/ I have written about Giraffe and shown some workarounds for what I perceived as limitations considering my existing enterprise ecosystem.…
Red mist
Sometimes you get so upset about something you need to blog about it, and ranting on Twitter, Facebook and Channel 9 comments just did not quite seem enough.…
F# puzzle
One of my colleagues at Jayway launched a functional puzzle and solicited responses via Github gists. The challenge was as follows:…
F# Actor: An Actor Library
F Actor: An Actor Libraryhttp://colinbul.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/f-actor-an-actor-library/.…
F# 3 and Raven DB
Wow, this was pretty interesting. I am definitely trying this right now. I didn’t realize F was Raven hostile, and also this unintended benefit of TypeProviders need to be announced off of the roof-tops.…
The Actor Model
In the .NET community perhaps the Actor modelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actormodel of computing is not all that familiar. In this post I will briefly describe my understanding of the possibilities it gives the “real li…
So what’s this FP thingy?
People are talking about Scala, F, Erlang, Haskell and what-have-you. What is the point of functional? What is wrong with OOP? How does it all work?…