Re: It's that time of year - F#

2022-06-29 Thread mike smith
Do languages need constant evolution to be seen as successful? As a recent post said, look at c++ Mike On Wed, 29 June 2022, 11:06 Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet, wrote: > In fact, the messaging changed fairly abruptly. > > > > Compare Kathleen’s article in Nov 2018: > https://devblogs.microsoft.com

Re: It's that time of year - F#

2022-06-29 Thread Dr Greg Low
If the requirements for what it needs to integrate with stay stationary then no, but they usually don't. For example, SQL Server Reporting Services is awesome and still has significant use cases where it is the most appropriate tool. But you'd be waiting forever for an updated report viewer con

53-bit double

2022-06-29 Thread Greg Keogh
Any IEEE 754 bit-boffins here? A popular way of generating a uniform random double is to something like this: uint u = *[32 random bits]* double rand = u / (double)uint.MaxValue; However, double has 53 (52?) bits of precision, so you get a deficient rand that can't produce a continuum of possible

Re: It's that time of year - F#

2022-06-29 Thread Tom Gao
I used F# for my doctorate as a modelling language to build out a prototype for a security integration platform I developed. The problem is that there are very few people who use F# afaik. Getting any commercial code developed will create a problem for ongoing support. Just my view. btw. this is