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Inside F#
Personal blog · lorgonblog.wordpress.comprogramming
Inside F# is a personal blog at lorgonblog.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Overview of Type Inference in F#”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these F# posts as references on pipelining, C# lambdas and async, and an older post on a word-game solver. Most links are cited as support or sources rather than praised.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brian's thoughts on F# and .NET
Most-linked posts?
- Overview of Type Inference in F#2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-12
What Hacker News says?
This solution reminds me of an old blog post, where two members of the F# team at Microsoft battled back and forth on making the best solver for some word game. Cloudflare's solution here looks a lot like the second-to-last solution; the final post involved collapsing the tree nodes into a 2D array of u32s for maximum cache-hits. It was a really neat solution! ...and amazingly, it's still up from 2010: https://lorgo…
Comment linking /2010/02/21/dawg-gone/
on “A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time”Submitted "F# async on the server side" - node.fs in waiting? as a story · 36 points
HN discussionI've heard a few complaints about this now, so I'm thinking of changing it. I wanted to cram a lot into a small space, and it didn't do so well. The piping is more an example of how piping works with everything and that, yes, the new method really really is a method instead of some magical keyword. But I stand by piping: https://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/pipelining-in-f/
Comment linking /2008/03/30/pipelining-in-f/
on “Lily Programming Language”Submitted Overview of Type Inference in F# as a story · 2 points
HN discussionC# verbosity is far from gone. http://trelford.com/blog/post/LighterCSharp.aspx http://trelford.com/blog/post/Boiler.aspx http://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/overview-of-type-... http://www.njgeeks.org/presentations/FS-Patterns-Long/#18
Comment linking /2009/10/25/overview-of-type-inference-in-f/
on “Haskell in Production: The good, the bad, and the ugly”You mentioned C#/LINQ, but F# has very nice looking pipeline operator, which does exactly that. Here is a blog post explaining it: http://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/pipelining-in-f/
Comment linking /2008/03/30/pipelining-in-f/
on “You already use Lisp syntax”Given MSFT's history of doing their own thing rather than supporting the community alternative, this seems like a really strange decision; particularly as they have the potential to build a great competitor product using .net async features ( http://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/f-async-on-the-se... ). Building JScript in parallel to JavaScript back in the 90s was a dumb idea, but forgoing their own toolset to…
Comment linking /2010/03/28/f-async-on-the-server-side/
on “Node.js coming to Windows, Azure with official Microsoft support”I could see a parser combinator working out for you. https://hasura.io/blog/parser-combinators-walkthrough/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDalzi7mhdY https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/zig-parser-combinators-and-wh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RUqGYuGfw https://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/c-3-0-lambda-and...
Comment linking /2007/12/02/c-3-0-lambda-and-the-first-post-of-a-series-about-monadic-parser-combinators/
on “Ask HN: Good Resources to Learn and Implement a Parser (Compiler)”