The Functional Renaissance

I recently watched Luca Bolognese’s presentation at last years PDC on F#. A really great presentation.

I’ve also been listening to Steve Vinoski’s podcasts on the The Functional Web.

There’s definitely stuff up in this area now. Coming from a non-comp-sci background – and only ever having written statically typed and imperative code (sad I know) – I’m curious to see where this will all lead. Haskell , Erlang, and Scala are all on the rise. CouchDB (backed I think by Lucene for search) and even Yaws (yet another web server) – are just two of several significant projects written in Erlang.

I think it was Martin Fowler who said that the best way to be a better programmer – is to learn another language, and F# is now on my list of things to do.