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Type Providers: making data first class

F# type providers provide types (at IDE and compile time) for data from diverse sources. The type provider looks at a sample of your data, creates a schema for it, and then provides the types and fetching infrastructure for you. I see this as a realization of Scheme's notions of first class citizenship, only this time for data.

Monoids on Steroids: a brief history of functional programming

André van Meulebrouck

After creating a plotting programming in F# with an embedded LISP interpreter (to allow the user to change the equation to be plotted at run time), I reminisce about some of the players that paved the way to enabled me to go on this odyssey. I also contemplate where I think functional programming is headed.