I’ve been looking for some new problems to work on in F# to get more comfortable with the language. I’ve been rather slack of late because of other projects but I had a little bit of time this week. I decided it would be fun to join the crowd and play away at the problems on the project euler site. That being said, answer #1.

This is a more amusing than functional debate I enter into from time to time. On a line where you declare a pointer type in C++, where should the * go?

I had a little bit of time this weekend to download the F# CTP. The IDE portion of the CTP is a huge improvement over the previous CTP. In particular the intellisense engine feels much more smooth, is available in new places and has much better results. Project engine also has better integration. Debugging support is much better.

A few days ago, I recklessly added a [Serialization] attribute to a few of my immutable collection types. I needed to pass data between AppDomain’s and adding [Serialization] was the quick and dirty fix. Compiled, ran and I didn’t think much about it.

A new version of the F# CTP was released today. There are a lot of new improvements to the language and project system. Check it out here