Hello F#

In this series we will take a walk into F# World. F# is a new functional programming language, targeting the .NET Framework.

Functional programming seems to be a buzz world for Multiprocessor programming and In my personal opinion think it is going to be more useful as we move more to Cloud computing in order to target muli processor computation power.

We will cover Why we need to use F# (functional language) in coming post. In mean time you can Google it with Bing.

In this series we will see how to get started with F#

1] Prerequisite - Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 Express.
You can download VS2010 web developer from MSDN site Free from
here.

2] Don’t forget to register your VS Web Express edition with Microsoft. Follow below steps
Registration.

3] Download F# -
Download links from Here.

a] VSIntShell.exe
b] InstallFSharp.msi

4] Once download is complete.
You can access F# Interactive (console) from menu Microsoft F# CTP 2.0.0.0.

And here we go- Our First F# Hello World Programme.


Please let me know your thoughts, suggestions.

Namskar