Functional Programming

F# – PDF fun with Markdown and FSharp.Formatting

I spent the last couple of nights putting together a simple Markdown to PDF formatter using Tomas Petricek’s FSharp.Formatting project and the PdfSharp-MigraDoc library. To use this library, you can either grab the source from the GitHub repository or get it from Nuget using the following command: F# Usage To use the library from F#, …

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F# – merge sort on array

Here’s a simple F# implementation of the merge sort algorithm (using mutable arrays) outlined in the Algorithms : Design and Analysis Part 1 course on Coursera. So refreshing to be writing simple sorting algorithms years after university, still fun!

F# – helper functions to convert between Async<unit> and Task

With the official release of .Net 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012, I suspect many .Net developers will be rushing to rewrite their data access or network layers (amongst many many other things!) to take advantage of the new async-await (see the excellent 101 examples here) language feature in C#, which means you’ll likely be working …

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F# – Starting an Agent with supervision

In Erlang, we have the Supervisor behaviour which makes it very easy to provide the means to monitor and restart a whole network of workers and other supervisors based on some configured strategy. The MailboxProcessor (aka agents) in F# doesn’t come with the same higher-level abstractions (such as Erlang’s gen_server, gen_fsm behaviours) by default, but …

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