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Friday, August 29, 2008

The most anticipated release of the year is out: F#

A huge thank you and congratulations to MSRC and the F# team! (And to MSFT in general for taking their commercial languages up quite a few notches.)

http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/08/29/detailed-release-notes-for-the-f-september-2008-ctp-release.aspx

I was up late last night reading different things on MSR and came across Andrew Kennedy's page. What a surprise to see this morning that F# includes Units of Measure Inference and Checking. http://research.microsoft.com/~akenn/units/intro.html Edit: Oh cool, Mr. Kennedy now has a blog and goes into detail: Units of Measure in F#: Part One, Introducing Units

It seems they did a ton of general clean up and added consistency with .NET and so on. (For instance, you don't need to explicitly accept subtypes with #.)

There's also an "AutoOpen" feature for modules, which allows modules to automatically get opened if their container namespace is -- I suppose this allows more namespace oriented development like .NET prefers.

Too much stuff to understand the full impact just by browsing the release notes. I think the license has changed; at least it's quite clear that our commercial plans with F# are perfectly allowable (there was some question before). So, now it gets interesting...

Friday, August 29, 2008 7:19:13 PM UTC

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Friday, August 29, 2008 11:03:46 PM UTC

Speaking of licensing terms - I wonder what happend to their intention to release F# under the MS-PL?

Anon

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