Before we dive into the technical details, let’s start with a quick history lesson, courtesy of Don Syme who worked on adding generics to .NET and then went on to design and implement F#, which is a pretty impressive set of achievements!!
Background and History
- 1999 Initial research, design and planning
- 1999 First ‘white paper’ published
- 2001 C# Language Design Specification created
- 2001 Research paper published
- 2004 Work completed and all bugs fixed