FSharp.it

If you understand Italian, you may be interested in reading an introductory article on F# I wrote for the most important Italian programming magazine called “IoProgrammo” and that was published a few days ago in the August issue.

The article covers the very first steps with F#, from installation to writing a first working sample application, which can be used to encrypt/decrypt messages using the Vigenere cipher.

I hope you can find useful, if you have any comments I’ll be glad to hear from you.

IoProgrammo - August 2009

F# development has finally reached CTP (Community Technology Preview) release and this actually makes F# a first-class citizen in the .Net ecosystem.

Don Syme himself made this important announcement on his blog, where he describes some of the major improvements, that include new and improved F# Project system and language service.

The detailed release notes can be found here, while the installer can be downloaded from the brand new Microsoft F# Developer Center.