Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language, described by a reporter as being regarded as "the most original new face in computer languages since Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in the early 1980s."[1]
Earlier, Syme created generics in the .NET Common Language Runtime, including the initial design of generics for the C# programming language, along with others including Andrew Kennedy[1][2] and later Anders Hejlsberg. Kennedy, Syme and Dachuan Yu also formalized this widely used system.[3]
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge,[1] and is a member of the IFIP working group on functional programming. He is a co-author of the book Expert F# 3.0.[4]
In the past he also worked on formal specification, interactive proof, automated verification and proof description languages.[5]
In 2015, he was honored with a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.[6]
- ^ a b c Syme, Don. "Interview with Don Syme", Simple Talk, 19 January 2010.
- ^ Kennedy and Syme, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=378797 "Design and implementation of generics for the .NET Common language runtime"
- ^ Kennedy, Syme, Yu http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=964005 "Formalization of generics for the .NET common language runtime"
- ^ Syme, Don et al. "Expert F# at Apress", Apress, November 2012.
- ^ Syme, Don. "Don Syme at Microsoft Research", 19 January 2010.
- ^ "Microsoft researcher Don Syme honored with Silver Medal from Royal Academy of Engineering".