Immutable objects – aka objects whose properties and fields can’t change after instantiation – are one of the fundamental pillars of functional programming. Yet, it also has other great uses in classically object-oriented languages such as C#. Immutability can help make your code cleaner, easier to reason about, and reduce …
Since the introduction of lambda expressions in C#, we have had two different style of programming. Yet, programmers used to the habitual style often find it easy to fall back on those old practices. In this presentation we will take a number of common tasks we code in C#, discuss …
Today’s major .NET languages allow developers to use functional programming techniques that can reach far outside the realm of traditional imperative and object-oriented programming.
Functional Programming has been around for a while, but it is gaining popularity, especially due to direct support in languages on the JVM and the CLR. Writing code in functional style is not about syntax. It is a paradigm shift. In this presentation, using examples from F# and C#, you …
Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. With F# 3.0, you now have a tool that massively simplifies information-rich programming with enterprise and web data sources. F# 3.0 provides world-beating support for the direct language integration of massive information sources through a new technique called F# …
C# introduced a number of language features that finally make it very easy to employ a functional style of programming. However, from the perspective of an imperative programmer, there are lots of questions surrounding functional programming. Why would I want to do it at all? Should I drop all state …
