Author Archives: Pierre IRRMANN

Pattern matching in C# – part 4 – more tuples

Posted on 06/04/2014 by Pierre IRRMANN

DISCLAIMER: this post has been written months ago and never posted. By that time I was still trying to bring F# goodness to C#. This might be easier today with Roslyn, but that is not the path I’ve taken. Since … Continue reading →

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Scala.io, seen by a .NET guy

Posted on 30/10/2013 by Pierre IRRMANN

As you might have noticed, I’m a .NET guy. I work on a Microsoft platform, with almost only Microsoft tools. But I happen to also be a functional programming fanboy now. My main interest is in F#, but I’m also … Continue reading →

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Andy Murray as an event source

Posted on 09/07/2013 by Pierre IRRMANN

With Wimbledon’s final this weekend, I recalled that I had not blogged about the “Evil Tennis kata” I played with, a few months ago. Its aim was to compute a tennis score from a series of game events. This kata … Continue reading →

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Potter Kata – Going further – Not following the rule

Posted on 07/07/2013 by Pierre IRRMANN

Last time, I blogged about the Potter Kata, and I carefully followed the advice, which was to only do the minimum required work to pass the tests. This time, I’m going to break the rule and implement a generic solver … Continue reading →

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Potter Kata

Posted on 05/07/2013 by Pierre IRRMANN

Yesterday evening I was running Arolla’s Code Jam, and I suggested that we practice on the Potter Kata. This kata is a tricky one, which seems pretty simple at first, but shows its challenges after a few minutes, and it … Continue reading →

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