Real-World Functional Programming

Acknowledgments

The “butterfly effect,” a term coined by Edward Lorenz, is based in chaos theory: the idea is that a seemingly minor event such as a flap of butterfly’s wings somewhere in Asia can cause a major event such as a hurricane in South America. (The butterfly flapping its wings has been constant in the concept, but the location [Asia or Brazil] and the result [hurricane or tornado] have varied.) This alone would be enough to say that there were many more people (and butterflies), without whom this book would not exist than I can possibly list here. And even if I didn’t believe in chaos theory, the number of people I’d want to mention in this section would be enormous.

I would never have become interested in F# and functional programming ...