Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

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I’d like to announce that for the past few months I’ve been secretly working on a book for O’Reilly titled Programming F# . My aim is to provide the one-stop-shop for learning the breadth of the F# language.

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A special thanks goes out to Nate LaMartina, a friend of mine at Mythic Entertainment for putting together the book cover. I haven’t actually discussed the animal on the cover yet, but I’m sure the folks at O’Reilly media would love a flesh-eating Squig.

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  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2008
    Sweet :). I think some lesser animal should be getting trampled or gored... My favourite O'Reilly cover is still "Oh No! A Horrid Little Monkey..." (One here: http://www.something-random.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/ohno.jpg) One question though, F# 1.0? Was that on purpose so you could limit the scope of what to cover?

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2008
    The "F# 1.0" was just filler text, I'll actually try to cover a little bit more than that such as how to deploy applications and running F# on Mono. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2008
    Really glad to see this. Your blogs always have a nice clear application which scaled will make interesting chapters. Another question though, will it be Learning F# (book cover) or Programming F#, since the contents have a different target audience.

  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2008
    Despite the image, the title will be "Programming F#". So it will assume the reader has more some programming experience and some familiarity with C#.

  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2008
    It's great to see another title on F# in the works Chris.  Thanks!  Don't hesitate to ping me for any review needs - I look forward to the book taking its place on my shelf.

  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2008
    Worth buying just because of the cover :D

  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2008
    Hi, slightly off topic but will you or anyone else from the F# team be at Tech Ed Barcelona this year? Great blog, keep up the good work.

  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2008
    Chris, how hard is it today to use F# for desktop applications? Is the subject touched at all within your book? Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2008
    Hi, will there be excerises? Some will state that you don't need any because as a good programmer you know how to do you stuff - but ever tried learning lisp or prolog without good excersies? And F# will be even worse because you can fall back to imperative programming ....

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2008
    Great, i am looking forward to it!

  • Anonymous
    December 10, 2008
    REDMOND, WA - Sadly, after nearly four years of stringing developers along with Microsoft's longest touted

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2008
    Also this which explains more...   Chris Smith's completely unique view : Due out Next Year –

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2009
    So I was tagged by my new homie Sarah Dutkiewicz AKA Coding Geekette about blogging my goals for 2009.

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2009
    You might have noticed my blogging has slowed down to a lull; never fear, this is just because I have