Remember the $125 million dollar mistake where a failure to convert English units into metric units caused the Mars probe to fly off course?  Wouldn't it be cool if you software program had the units of measure built into the code?  I'm not sure if it would have prevented the Mars probe mistake, but it may make your next application more robust.  A feature of F#, called Units of Measure, allows your code to include inches or kilograms or some unit of measurement unique to your business logic or scienteific domain.  It can provide intellisence and other development time feedback in error messages or unit tests.

 

S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President, Developer Division at Microsoft, recently blogged on the subject. 

 

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