Read this full-color book to learn how Microsoft's new Visual F# 2010 programming language can be used as a next-generation platform for high-performance interactive technical computing. Topics covered include the latest version of the F# language, parallel programming with .NET 4, Windows Presentation Foundation for visualization, concurrent programming with asynchronous workflows, file manipulation, text handling including regular expressions, data structures, algorithms and performance optimization.

This book contains hundreds of source code examples and dozens of diagrams that elucidate the power of functional programming and explain how the F# programming language is the ideal tool for scientists and engineers wanting to collate, analyse and visualize their data easily and efficiently.