Author Archives: Pierre IRRMANN

Some advice to F# beginners

Posted on 12/12/2016 by Pierre IRRMANN

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2016 project. Check out all the other great posts there! And special thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing this. I’m very happy that F# is getting used more and … Continue reading →

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Making program behaviour explicit

Posted on 01/04/2016 by Pierre IRRMANN

When observing developers in their day-to-day work, it’s quite usual to see them swearing at their programs, because they don’t behave as they should. You often see them asking the program to obey, sometimes cursing, and even praying from time … Continue reading →

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Visualizing F# Advent Calendar contributors

Posted on 28/12/2015 by Pierre IRRMANN

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 project. Check out all the other great posts there! And special thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing this. A few weeks ago, while at BuildStuff, I walked next … Continue reading →

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Fun with turtles

Posted on 19/12/2014 by Pierre IRRMANN

F# is a great language to build internal DSLs, but I had no idea that you could go as far as what I’m going to present here… Let’s start from the start: my goal was to design some way for … Continue reading →

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F# |> I <3

Posted on 07/04/2014 by Pierre IRRMANN

I’ve been writing about F# for a little while now, and how it has influenced the way I code in C# on an everyday basis for 3 years. During the last couple weeks, I’ve finally had the chance to use … Continue reading →

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