Real-World Functional Programming

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

1. Learning to think functionally

Chapter 1. Thinking differently

1.1. What is functional programming?

1.2. The path to real-world functional programming

1.2.1. Functional languages

1.2.2. Functional programming on the .NET platform

1.3. Being productive with functional programming

1.3.1. The functional paradigm

1.3.2. Declarative programming style

1.3.3. Understanding what a program does

1.3.4. Concurrency-friendly application design

1.3.5. How functional style shapes your code

1.4. Functional programming by example

1.4.1. Expressing intentions ...