My seventy-sixth podcast is up. In this show, I chat with Robert Pickering, author of the very fine Foundations of F#. We ask the question 'Why F#?' and talk about functional languages and some of the features of F# that make it a great introduction to FP for .NET programmers.

NOTE: If you can, while listening to this show, be sure to visit this explanatory post on Robert's blog. It includes the code samples and syntax techniques that he talks about in this interview. Reading the code while listening will help you enjoy this particular show that much more.

Additional Production Note: Check out this post on Sound Quality at Carl Franklin's blog for short before and after samples of Robert's audio track and an explanation of one of the many ways that Carl and his team at Pwop makes the sound quality of this podcast so nice.

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Links from the Show

Examples - Robert Pickering's Blog Post on the F# Show on Hanselminutes (rr0)
F# - Microsoft Research (rr2)
Robert Pickering's F# Blog (rr4)
Book: Foundations of F# - Robert Pickering (rr1)
Robert Pickering's F# Resources (rr3)
MSDN Video on F# (rr5)

Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

Telerik is our sponsor for this show.

Check out their UI Suite of controls for ASP.NET. It's very hardcore stuff. One of the things I appreciate about Telerik is their commitment to completeness. For example, they have a page about their Right-to-Left support while some vendors have zero support, or don't bother testing. They also are committed to XHTML compliance and publish their roadmap. It's nice when your controls vendor is very transparent.

As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?