Thanks to Mitch Wheat for inviting me to talk, and letting me
choose the topic: F#.  Also a major thanks to both Joel Pobar
(for callvirt, around all things dynamic and functional spin)
and SecretGeek (for slides and some helper starter scripts)
There was also a callout to Paul Stovell: “F# is Overhyped” as I
was demonstrating a sum-of-squares example. Thankfully, there
are better demos of F# over and above Fib sequences and other
simple 17th century maths problems.  I used Luca Bolognese’s F#
demonstration from PDC2008; watching his video intently and re-
typing his code. A great way to learn a new language, and for
many new programming paradigm.  There were some questions from
the group, including a couple from the pub a little later on.
1. Parallel across multiple machines
Parallel/Multicore/Concurrency for the masses, not just for
rarefied scientific endeavour is in vogue.      In Luca’s F# PDC
demo, the Seq.pmap and Seq.psum methods are using
System.Linq.ParallelEnumerable added via System.Thread