Functional Programming with C#

Chapter 14. Conclusion

It’s the end of the book, party time! Right, everyone, let’s get ready. I want the dancing girls over there, the dancing boys over there and…​

Oh, just got a note from Mr. O’Reilly. We don’t have the money for the big Broadway-style spectacular finish.

OK, what do we have. Right, there’s my recorder, that’ll do. Everyone likes the recorder, don’t they? OK, and a one and a two and a…​

Sorry, folks. I’ve just been reminded of what happened to all the milk in the house last time I played recorder. I suppose we’ll just have to make do with a few thoughts from me to go home with. Such is life…​

What Kind of Day Has It Been?

Joking aside, I hope you’ve enjoyed this book. It’s taken me a fair bit of time to write, and as you can tell, I’ve put a lot of myself into it.

I’ve tried to keep the tone light throughout for a couple of reasons. First, so many dry (but nevertheless excellent) computing books are out there that I’m sure the market can handle one that isn’t.¹ Second, FP itself has so many sites, articles, and books that focus on formal definitions that even I find nearly unreadable that I wanted to show that it doesn’t have to be that way.

Over the course of this book, I’ve tried to take a shallow sloping path from out-of-the-box C# all the way to something that F# developers would find somewhat familiar. Hopefully, none of it was too painful, and I hope you had a bit of fun along the way!

C# is, and will always remain, a hybrid language. It’s unlikely to ...