With many things that require my attention, it is always nice to have friends like Marty, especially when I consider that he introduced me to F#. But now, he's provided information that will improve my February Wisconsin INETA presentation on F#. (warning, I didn't never not write those comments there). Gerry (fellow Wisconsin INETA presenter) concurs.
F# 1.1.7.0 (my coverage here) was released in early January with examples of F# and LINQ. Not more than 20 days later, F# 1.1.8.1 is now available. Out with the old and in with the new. And new it is. Dr. Don Syme, on an obviously busy schedule, has posted on his outstanding work on F# and LINQ.
This is Part I of a what appears will be a series of posts on topics in the LINQ initiative and the relative advantage that it provides in .NET and further, the advantages of the use of LINQ in F#.
Those of you that know me, know that I expend a great deal of energy to better my knowledge and understanding in many disciplines. Dr. Syme's comprehensive samples have provided another path of exploration and reduced my costs to learn. I urge you to do the same and take some time to learn from this work.
I'd also be curious to hear what DoubleI, .NET Monkey, The Beer Software Architect Application Services Manager (whose recent alpha release of Codus 1.3 is here; wtg Sean), THE Beer connoisseur (with that spiffy new blog location as moved from here) and others in the everyday professional practice of data manipulation at a high level of competence would think.
Ok, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, theta . . .
Lambda calculus and I are on speaking terms. I've studied and studied and think that I "get" sigma-calculus. I'm a BizTalker and espouse pi-calculus. But rho-calculus? There goes another few days, weeks, months. I've of course read about join-calculus, but those papers were originated by people who obviously chose a name while on vacation in some Mediterranean country other than Greece.
On a closing note, via 11011110, this is nice.
Updated to add: Perhaps no one cares, or perhaps no one noticed, or perhaps my sense of humor is too dry, but "eta" is missing before "theta" in my recitation of the Greek alphabet. ((ok, no one noticed and it wasn't funny))