CHAPTER 18
Developing and Testing F# Code
Successful programming must involve a healthy marriage of good code and good software engineering. 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. 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 of side effects in the program, one property that makes programs ...
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