August 2006 Entries

Why I like functional programming: F#, Mandelbrot and more WPF

I was playing around with implementing drawing a Mandelbrot set in F#. F# makes this very easy because of its Microsoft.FSharp.Math namespace provides a very easy to use complex implementation which means you just need to type out the equation and viola you have the Mandelbrot set. Or so I thought. My implementation end up being about 40 lines about 11 of which were the equation on which the Mandelbrot set was based and the rest of the code was infrastructure to use the equation and display the results. While the resulting code, shown below, is still reasonably short this...

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