F# - a perfect fit for AutoCAD .NET programming?

I've just come across the announcement for F#, and am pretty excited about it. Here's the link to Soma's blog, and here's the Microsoft Research F# site.

F# is a functional programming language. Functional programming has a long association with technical computing, one of the reasons LISP was chosen as the initial programming interface for AutoCAD. On a personal note: aside from the work I've done with LISP over the years, I also studied an obscure functional language called Miranda during my university days and have since worked a lot with XSLT (which is at least influenced by functional languages).

So I'm keen to get my hands on F# and take it for a spin within AutoCAD (there's nothing to say it won't work, but then I haven't tried it, as yet :-).

Comments

[mspan]

I am also very excited about F#... seems like great fit with AC. I am very much looking forward to your first tutorial :)
--mspan

[Daniele Piazza]

Hi Kean,
I agree this is a very exciting news (especially if someone in Autodesk support the language...). I just posted an how-to on my website that might interested some of you:

http://www.pdcode.com/docs/Inventor_AddIn_FS.html

Also available as CHM:

http://www.pdcode.com/docs/Inventor_AddIn_FS.chm

bye,

Daniele

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