Primary Job Title Principal Researcher Primary Organization 
Microsoft Research
Location Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist, an F# community contributor and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language.
Earlier, Don 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 and later Anders Hejlsberg.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is a member of the WG2.8 working group on functional programming. He is a co-author on the book Expert F#.
