Microsoft Researchers discuss F# and it’s many applications.

Luke Hoban, the Program Manager for Microsoft’s F# Team, presents functional languages.

Tomas Petricek will talk about his most recent favorite F# programming area – reactive programming. This includes programming applications driven by events such as user interactions, messages received from other components or completion of asynchronous operations. Writing reactive applications has been difficult, because the application cannot control what is happening. Fortunately, F# provides some very nice techniques that we can use to deal with these problems. During this talk, Tomas will cover two techniques. We’ll start by looking at F# events and declarative approach for specifying event processing. Next, …

This video presents the basic building blocks you will need to use F# productively. It shows you all the basics of the language and looks at how composing functions and immutable data types make programming simpler. We’ll be showing a number of interesting applications of F# including, using F# in concurrent and reactive programming and using F# to create Domain Specific Languages (DSLs).
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/open-source-dot-net/beginning-f

In this interview made by Sadek Drobi, Don Syme speaks about F# 2.0, its application fields, its integration in Visual Studio 2010 and F# open source Power Pack library. Don also discusses the genesis of F#, the ties with OCaml as well as its specificity. He explains how did OOP and FP mix into one language and mentions some of the language’s design decisions and compromises he had to take.
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/don-syme-fsharp-2_0