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I've started a new Google Group to discuss issues surrounding the practical use of former research around functional programming including issues such as designing purely functional data structures to leverage mainstream virtual machines (JVM and CLR) and garbage collectors, wrapping mainstream libraries (e.g. Windows Presentation Foundation) to improve productivity from modern functional languages and so on. Please join us here .

The Raspberry Pi uses an older ARMv6 core which is not well supported by modern software. In particular, Mono's JIT apparently doesn't support the hardware-accelerated floating point instructions used by that version of the ARM instruction set. The solution is apparently to use the soft-float version of Raspian that emulates floating point instructions in software (which will be extremely slow). However, trying to compile the current version of the F# sources on Github using the stock Mono (2.10.8) fails with the following null reference exception from within the F# compiler: error FS0193: internal error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object   at Microsoft.FSharp.Core.FSharpFunc`2[Microsoft.FSharp.Collections.FSharpList`1[System.String],System.String].InvokeFast[CcuThunk] (Microsoft.FSharp.Core.FSharpFunc`2 func, Microsoft.FSharp.Collections.FSharpList`1 arg1...