That Cummings and Vallance are allies doesn't surprise me at all. Things are on a slightly better track now but expect them to be back with herd immunity, and also to cover their tracks.
"the government had 'bet' the future of the UK on advice from a very small group of scientists that for a long time differed from the wider international consensus"
"Political aides tacitly criticised other countries who had taken more dramatic steps, claiming Britain was being 'guided by the science' rather than politics."
So much science!
- so little ethics
- so little sense
- so little planning
- so few ventilators
- so much pub
- so much gym
- so few masks
- so little protective gear #EnglishExceptionalism
A 10 day delay with a conservative 20% per day spread makes it 6x worse than what it should have been. 20x if 40% spread. Meaning the vast majority of deaths will be attributable to government inaction.
This includes links to some key frameworks plus a link to the F# Software Foundation guide to F# web development for more comprehensive community listings
A farewell to Simon Peyton Jones as he leaves Microsoft Research
Subject: RE: New horizon
I would like to add a few words to what Chris has written. I know I am also speaking for Mads, the current lead designer of C# (cc’d)
From 1997 to 2015, Simon PJ was pivotal in the Programming Principles and Tools group at MSR Cambridge. The work of that group included major contributions to the research and practice of programming, a stream of seminal publications,..
... and succeeded in changing the conceptual foundation of programming for millions of programmers through direct contributions to Haskell, C# and F# - and transitively through profound influence on other languages.
One simple way to help F# is to help us fill in basic F# code samples for all the F# core library functions. These should have been done long ago, but let's do them now!
I'm at #hopl and here is a potted history of the addition of what I call "computational modalities" to C# and F# - these include addition of new syntactic forms like comprehensions, or "modal" reinterpretation of existing syntactic forms.
First, in 2000-02, Todd Proebsting of MSR initiated an effort to convince the C# design team to add iterator methods, based on his experience with the Icon language, of SNOBOL fame. Iterator methods serve as a form of computed collection.
In 2005-07, those of us in F# looked at iterator methods and past history of tasksm promises, monadic and comprehension syntax to form F# async, F# sequences, F# list comprehensions and the general F# computation expressions.
@chaldal.com is a global company centred in Dhaka, Bangladesh. You can read more about them on their website.
I've long believed F# could have a strong role in up-tooling the software skills of developing nations, giving them a competitive advantage.
But for me, this one is also very personal.
In 1993 I had the opportunity to travel to Bangladesh, to visit my brother, who was working doing flood modelling on the internationally sponsored Flood Action Program.
"All our new code is in F#, we started off from a C# codebase, so that made the transition somewhat manageable, as new F# code can be directly called from C#, and vice versa (still took over 2 years)..."
".... All new frontend apps are also being written in F# (using Fable), as of 6 months back, migrating away from TypeScript, this forces everyone into a "design your model first, and well" paradigm...."