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F# 4.0 Design Patterns

You're reading from   F# 4.0 Design Patterns Solve complex problems with functional thinking

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884726
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Begin Thinking Functionally 2. Dissecting F# Origins and Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Basic Functions 4. Basic Pattern Matching 5. Algebraic Data Types 6. Sequences - The Core of Data Processing Patterns 7. Advanced Techniques: Functions Revisited 8. Data Crunching – Data Transformation Patterns 9. More Data Crunching 10. Type Augmentation and Generic Computations 11. F# Expert Techniques 12. F# and OOP Principles/Design Patterns 13. Troubleshooting Functional Code

The evolvement of F#

Press began mentioning (http://developers.slashdot.org/story/02/06/08/0324233/f---a-new-net-language) the F# programming language in the Summer of 2002 as a research project at Microsoft Research Cambridge (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cambridge/) aiming to create a dialect of OCaml language (https://ocaml.org/) running on top of the .NET platform. Computer scientist Don Syme (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/dsyme/) was in charge of design and the first implementation.

Predecessors

The F# project of Microsoft Research Cambridge didn't come from scratch. F# belongs to ML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming language)) programming language family. It predecessors are Standard ML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML) and OCaml. Moreover, F# initially had a twin project at Microsoft Research Cambridge named SML.NET, which aimed at bringing Standard  ML (SML) to the .NET platform.

F# Version 1

The first release took place in...

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