Granville Barnett

A great resource for F# - F# Journal

I'm on a mission to ramp my F# posts up but before I do I just wanted to point out that Jon Harrop has being relentlessly posting some great articles in his F# Journal.

One of the things that I must give Jon great credit for is that he is very honest to the nature of functional programming - his articles are littered with great insight (if like me you are not one for reading code snippets, rather you just want the theory and then take that and run with it - F# Journal is very good for that...of course there are code snippets as well though).

The best thing though for me about F# Journal is that the articles are not on the typical subjects, rather they are quite varied and I must say very interesting, here are a few titles of recent articles in F# Journal:

  • Factoring numerical methods using combinators
  • Numerical Libraries: special functions, interpolation and random numbers
  • Reducing development costs with Static Typing
  • Numerical Libraries: linear algebra and spectral methods

Oh his blog is called F# News. Some more interesting stuff on there as well.

Posted: Apr 27 2008, 04:01 PM by gbarnett | with 6 comment(s)
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rog said:

... but unfortunately it's too expensive for those of us with only a casual interest in the language to justify. a pity, because i'm sure there are some good articles in there.

# April 28, 2008 10:45 AM

gbarnett said:

The best place on the web for free content is Don Syme's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/). If you search his blog for an area then you will probably get somehting that will shed osme light on that area, or failing that he usually posts references to areas you can get information on that area.

Brian McNamara also has a good blog on F# (lorgonblog.spaces.live.com/default.aspx)

But yes, point taken.

# April 28, 2008 11:14 AM

Dustin Campbell said:

+1 for the journal too expensive. Jon's a fantastic teacher and writer, but the cost (after conversion to USD) is actually more than the cost of a print subscription Cambridge's Journal of Functional Programming! Sadly, I've had to allow my subscription to lapse until it is priced more reasonably.

# April 28, 2008 11:31 AM

Jon Harrop said:

Very glad to hear that you and Dustin have enjoyed our F#.NET Journal articles so much.

The F#.NET Journal now costs only $2 per article.

If you pay taxes then you probably already covered the cost of the academic Journal of Functional programming that is published by a registered charity. They also provide quite different content. For example, see their recent article "HM(X) type inference is CLP(X) solving". ;-)

# May 1, 2008 7:09 PM

Dustin Campbell said:

Jon, I'm not sure how you're calculating $2 per article is coming from. The cost of a one-year subscription is 99 GBP. Today, that amounts to $194.84 USD! Currently, there are 25 articles available. Add 24 articles for the year and it's about $4 per article.

# May 5, 2008 11:13 AM

Jon Harrop said:

Hi Dustin,

A new subscriber can currently get the existing 28 articles with another 6 new articles for only £39. That is 34 articles for US$77 which works out at about $2.25 per article.

Cheers,

Jon.

# May 25, 2008 12:44 AM
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