Using Functional Programming for Development of Distributed, Cloud and Web Applications in F#

in English— In this paper, we argue that modern functional programming languages – in particular, F# on the .NET platform – are well suited for the development of distributed, web and cloud applications on the Internet. We emphasize that F# can be successfully used in a range of scenarios – starting from simple ASP.NET web applications, and including cloud data processing tasks and data-driven web applications. In particular, we show how some of the F# features (eg. quotations) can be effectively used to develop a distributed web system using single code-base, and describe the commercial WebSharper project by Intellifactory for building distributed client-server web applications, as well as research library that uses Windows Azure for parametric sweep computational tasks.