F# 2.0 tools now available on VS2010 shell

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F# 2.0 tools now available on VS2010 shell

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http://blogs.msdn.co...or-net-4-0.aspx

Yes, this means you can get yourself a free F# IDE. I've noticed a lot of .NET people here who pointed out that they wouldn't use F# because it lacked a free IDE. Looks like the problem is solved.
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Posted 20 August 2010 - 12:33 PM

What's F#?
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Posted 20 August 2010 - 12:33 PM

A functional .NET programming language, I believe. :)
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Posted 20 August 2010 - 12:37 PM

I know there's Google, but I want Raynes to explain to me in his words instead of Microsoft's.
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Posted 20 August 2010 - 12:39 PM

It's basically OCaml for .NET.
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Posted 20 August 2010 - 12:40 PM

Not too enthusiastic huh?
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Posted 20 August 2010 - 12:47 PM

There just isn't much to say. As Scala is to the JVM, F# is to the .NET platform. It's seriously pretty much just OCaml for the CLR. It's a lot more interesting, since being on the CLR, it has access to .NET libraries. The problem is that I don't really know a lot about OCaml, so I can't do much hyping. :P
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