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Don Syme

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For the Australian local politician and activist, see Don Syme (politician).

Don Syme in 2006

Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist and a Principal Researcher at GitHub. 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]. He is a visiting Professor at King's College London.

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]

Since 2022, he has worked at GitHub Next on artificial intelligence for software engineering, including Continuous AI[4], GitHub Agentic Workflows[5] and Copilot Workspace.[6]. Previously he has worked on formal specification, interactive proof, automated verification and proof description languages.[7]

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# 4.0.[8]

In 2015, he was honored with a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.[9]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Syme, Don. "Interview with Don Syme", Simple Talk, 19 January 2010.
  2. ^ Kennedy and Syme, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=378797 "Design and implementation of generics for the .NET Common language runtime"
  3. ^ Kennedy, Syme, Yu http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=964005 "Formalization of generics for the .NET common language runtime"
  4. ^ Syme, Don et al. "Continuous AI", 24 May 2026.
  5. ^ Syme, Don et al. "GitHub Agentic Workflows", 24 May 2026.
  6. ^ Syme, Don et al. "Copilot Workspace", 24 May 2026.
  7. ^ Syme, Don. "Don Syme at Microsoft Research", 19 January 2010.
  8. ^ Syme, Don et al. "Expert F# 4.0 at Springer Nature Link", Springer, November 2015.
  9. ^ "Microsoft researcher Don Syme honoured with silver medal from Royal Academy of Engineering".
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