Lately I've been getting back to basics with regards to recursion. This is a basic and essential skill, especially in the functional programming world. Today's dive will be into immutable lists and recursion. I'll do my best to provide the F# and C# equivalent to each call. This is in part...

In my previous post , I talked about some of the basics of recursion and why you might want to use it to your advantage. Today, let's dive a little deeper into the different kinds of recursion, including linear, tail recursion and finally binary recursion. This is in a series of back to basics covering...

Lately, I've noticed a few blogs are doing the come back to basics post, such as Scott Hanselman's . I think that's an effort that should be lauded, because many have a tendency to go off on pretty advanced topics, yet not provide enough for those just starting to get the full context. So...

Over the past couple of months, I've been working on some language oriented programming concepts in F# to prove how Domain Specific Languages could work. This coincided with my lofty goals of working towards more Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks and expressiveness that I think is needed...

I'm finally getting back to my concurrency in .NET posts after a brief hiatus after I got sidetracked on various other functional programming issues such as some language oriented programming and functional C#. In the previous post , I talked about MPI in .NET and I need to get back to that one and...

In the last installment of Functional C# , I covered a bit about creating delayed evaluation lists based upon unfolding constructs and generating lists from external resources. Those are some of the higher level high order functions you can do in C#, but let's look at a few more, plus those that...

In a previous post , I talked about how I thought C# has some significant drawbacks from being considered a more functional language. But, that wasn't to exclude it as a language altogether, as it has some pretty useful features. Lately, when I have been talking about F# in my sessions, many people...

Lately, I've been doing some functional C# in both user groups and on this blog. As the C# language has evolved it has definitely taken some functional programming aspects, such as high order functions, extension methods, LINQ and so on. But with that, there is a cost. Functional programming with...

As I've covered earlier , I'm very interested in the unit testing and behavior testing story in F# and functional programming. And as I've indicated earlier, I'm pretty fascinated by Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) as well in this regard. In the past, I've posted about some of the...

Very recently there has been an ongoing debate between static and dynamically typed languages. Since it seems that there has been some Star Wars references, I thought I'd add my own. I originally wanted to cover this as part of the future of C#, but I think it deserves its own topic. There have been...