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I woke up this morning with some ideas on the Semantic Types project my associate is working on - he's doing low level C code and I thought I'd look at implementing some of his ideas in C#, so I've been working on the declarative side of things leveraging a lot of FP concepts and whacky features of C# that I hardly ever use, like the dynamic keyword and runtime code generation and execution.

Had a lovely breakfast with my gf, shoveled the snow off her car (note, "shoveled", not "brushed") and kissed her goodbye as she went off to take care of the sheep and other animals at the farm where she works. The rest of the day will be spent earning $$$ working on my client's upgrades to a couple Ruby on Rails websites, then tonight, off to the Saturday poker game where I will hopefully make more $$$. Ironically, I make about as much money playing poker per hour (on average) as I do doing contract programming! Too bad it's not full-time game playing!

I'm almost 50% done with my SyncFusion e-book on "From Imperative to Functional Programming - How to Think Functionally" (anyone interested in giving me feedback, I'd be happy to send them what I have so far), but I'm putting that aside today - the next big thing is to really understand monads (computational expressions) so I can write about it intelligently. None of the online descriptions, though excellent in one way, really explain monads in a way that can be applied practically, and FP (and specifically F#), being what it is (immutable if we stay pure to the idea of FP) needs monads to manage state, so I'm trying to wrap my head around that with some practical examples.

Oh, and weirdly, the hot water pipes downstairs seem to have frozen, but we still get hot water upstairs. Debugging that is a lot harder than most programming problems!

Marc
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