I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
—Patti Smith, Musician
Collection functions are central to productive F# coding. Trying to code without them is as crazy as trying to play the guitar without learning chords. Though you don’t need to know all the chords to be a decent guitarist, you do need the basic ones, and to be able to use them instinctively. The same is true for using collection functions when coding in F#.
But how to start with this seemingly mountainous task? There are about 70 collection functions in the Array ...