Expert F [Paperback]

In this book, the world's foremost experts in F# show you how to program in F# the way they do. Written by F#'s inventor and two major contributors to its development, Expert F# is the authoritative, comprehensive, and in-depth guide to the language and its use. Designed to help others become experts, the first part of the book quickly yet carefully describes the F# language. The second part then carefully shows how to elegantly use F# for a wide variety of practical programming tasks. This comprehensive reference of F# concepts, syntax, and features offers a treasury of expert techniques.

Expert F# is the authoritative, comprehensive, and in-depth guide to the language and its use. It describes the F# language and carefully shows how to elegantly use F# for a wide variety of practical programming tasks.

Expert F# is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of functional programming into the hands of .NET developers. In combination with .NET, F# achieves unrivaled levels of programmer productivity and program clarity. This books serves as

• The authoritative guide to F# by the designer of F#
• A comprehensive reference of F# concepts, syntax, and features
• A treasury of expert F# techniques for practical, real–world programming

While inspired by OCaml, F# isn't just another functional programming language. Drawing on many of the strengths of both OCaml and .NET, it's a general–purpose language ideal for real–world development. F# integrates functional, imperative, and object–oriented programming styles so you can flexibly and elegantly solve programming problems, and brings .NET development alive with interactive execution. Whatever your background, you'll find that F# is easy to learn, fun to use, and extraordinarily powerflãÏ