CHAPTER 3
Introducing Functional Programming
F#’s effectiveness rests on the tried and tested foundation of functional programming. This chapter will cover the core building blocks of functional programming with F#, including simple types and function values, pattern matching, lists, and options. Chapters 4 through 6 will cover imperative programming, generics, and object-oriented programming, and Chapters 8, 9, and 10 will cover more advanced topics in functional programming with text, sequences, and structured and numeric data.
Starting with Numbers and Strings
We will first cover the most common base types of data manipulated in F# code, beginning ...
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