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Starting from Visual Studio 2010 F# is full member of .NET Framework languages family. It is functional language with syntax specific to functional languages but I think it is time for us also notice and study functional languages. In this posting I will show you some examples about cool things other people have done using F#.

One challenge designers face is the need to translate their algorithms into code for use in embedded targets. The task has proven to be long and prone to error. This article examines how the use of high-level design tools and C code generation capabilities improves the design flow by exploring different use cases and how to reduce the amount of embedded technology expertise required to program embedded targets.

At the beginning of the '90s there were 26 published methods on object-orientation, most with its own notation with its own set of icons. It was in this environment that UML was born. Although Grady Booch, Jim Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson initiated the design of what became UML, many other contributors (including Steve Cook) quickly joined the effort and the Object Management Group (OMG) launched the result. UML quickly made most other methods -- along with their own notations, obsolete -- UML eventually became the standard we had hoped for, and toolbuilders and practitioners rapidly adopted the new approach.

The World Wide Web Consortium has launched a new specification called "XProc," which provides a standard framework for composing XML processes.  It streamlines the automation, sequencing, and management of complex XML processes, the standards body said.  The "XML Pipeline Language" spec was developed to provide a framework for managing enterprise-level business processes.

In this demo we showcase efforts in MSR to collaborate with external researchers to explore the application of new technologies, specifically Dryad and DryadLINQ, to big data research problems in science. We also highlight our efforts to provide software and services to academics across the world, through the release of Dryad and DryadLINQ free of charge to the research community, along with associated programming guides, user documentation, and code libraries. Dryad is a general-purpose distributed computing engine, more flexible than MapReduce or Hadoop!, that was designed to simplify the task of implementing distributed applications on clusters of Windows computers. DryadLINQ is an abstraction layer which simplifies the process of implementing Dryad-based applications. Microsoft Research is acutely aware of the ubiquity of big data and the challenges this presents. We are offering researchers the tools, resources and collaboration to explore this new area.

Google today launched an "early preview" of Dart, a programming language the company hopes will help Web application programmers overcome shortcomings of JavaScript that Google itself feels acutely.