This week Ben and I get a chance to geek out with Chris Smith, author of Programming F#, about the recently completed second edition. Chris is a former SDET on the Microsoft F# team, and currently works for Google on developer tools.

Show Notes

• Lots of stuff about F#
• History of functional programming
• What are monads?
• What are you doing at the Google?
• Google closure compiler *terrible name, has nothing to do with ‘Closure’ on the JVM

ProTips

• Jim: Alan Kay interview on Dr. Dobbs
• Ben: JS Hotline
• Chris: “Give yourself license to fail” AND Unix tools! (sed, grep, find, etc)
• Stay away from Diablo III!

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