Expert F# 3.0, Third Edition

CHAPTER 19

Packaging, Debugging and Testing F# Code

Successful programming must involve a healthy marriage of good code with good software engineering techniques and practice. Sometimes these overlap: functional programming is a good software-engineering technique: among other benefits, anecdotal evidence indicates that functional programming frequently leads to a substantially reduced bug rate for good programmers. This is primarily because programs built using functional techniques tend to be highly compositional, building correct programs out of correct building blocks. The functional-programming style avoids or substantially reduces the use ...