Chapter 4. Staying Objective
For years, object-oriented (OO) development has been the de facto standard for developing business software, particularly within the enterprise, so you’re probably familiar with many of its core principles. It should come as no surprise that as a .NET language, F# supports the full cast of constructs—including classes, structs, and interfaces—available in the other .NET languages. Despite its reputation as a niche language useful only for academic exercises or highly specialized software, F#’s general-purpose, multiparadigm nature makes it suitable for most development situations. With C# and Visual Basic already well established, though, why choose F# as an OO language?
A large part of the decision rests on F#’s terse ...
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