Communications of the ACM
F# for Scientists
F# is expected to become a popular functional programming language for scientists working on the Windows platform over the next five years.
Credit: F# Software Foundation
Over the next five years, F# is expected to become a popular functional programming language for scientists working on the Windows platform.
F#'s projected popularity is attributed to its functionality and the object-oriented and imperative features that enable .NET integration and large-scale data processing. F# is a free and full-fledged programming language, unlike other software with numerical or scientific origins, and it can be used for compilation, debugging, and interactive projects.
The language was created by Microsoft to address complex computing problems while producing simple, maintainable code.
Elements of F#, along with aspects of C# and Python, are being used as part of a quantum programming language, which will offer a more familiar look to programming quantum computers, say Microsoft developers.
Users will still need to use and understand quantum logic gates and their operations, but thanks to the F# components, they will be able to use them to write functions, complete with variables, branches, and other typical constructs.
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