InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5.

While highlighting new development work on Microsoft's F# programming language alongside the latest .NET 5 preview, the company announced that, except for one minor enhancement, 'we are finished with ...

Functional programming has been viewed as valuable in domains such as the financial and scientific realms as well as technical computing. Microsoft has described F# as combining type safety ...

Integrates the F# language into Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Corp. is boosting integration of functional programming with its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform.

I really like F#. The language, especially the REPL is well integrated in VS 2010, and F# code has a certain simplicity and readability that I enjoy. I'm not a professional programmer, I'm a ...