Functional programming (specifically Microsoft F#)

[Peter Swinkels]

Hi,

I 've been experimenting with functional programming, Microsoft F# to be specific.

After several hours of trying I finally succeeded in making a small application called "FTextBin" that does more than demonstrate a F# function.

It extracts "human-readable" strings from binary files much like the Linux/Unix strings command. (I wrote something similar in vb6 and vb.net, search the forum for "TextBin".)

To use it:
1. Load and compile it with Microsoft Visual Studio.
2. Start a command line based shell. (Cmd.exe/Power Shell.)
3. Run the executable with the binary file to be searched as a command line argument.
4. It should now dump a list of strings to the standard output.

If an exception occurs during run-time, it will simply display: "Error: "exception message".

Normally, I would post something like this in the code bank, but I don't think there's one for F#.

Any way, who else here has experimented and/or has experience with functional programming?