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Expert F#
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Expert F# is about practical programming in a beautiful language that
puts the power and elegance of functional programming into the hands of .NET
developers. In combination with .NET, F# achieves unrivaled levels of programmer
productivity and program clarity. This books serves as
- The authoritative guide to F# by the designer of F#
- A comprehensive reference of F# concepts, syntax, and features
- A treasury of expert F# techniques for practical, real-world programming
While inspired by OCaml, F# isn't just another functional programming language.
Drawing on many of the strengths of both OCaml and .NET, it's a general-purpose
language ideal for real-world development. F# integrates functional, imperative,
and object-oriented programming styles so you can flexibly and elegantly solve
programming problems, and brings .NET development alive with interactive execution.
Whatever your background, you'll find that F# is easy to learn, fun to use,
and extraordinarily powerful. F# will help change the way you think about and
go about programming.
Written by F#'s designer and two active contributors, Expert F# is the
authoritative, comprehensive, and in-depth guide to the language and its use.
Designed to help others become experts, the book gives a thorough introduction
to the F# language from quick essentials to in-depth advanced topics such as
active pattern matching, aggregate data types and operators, sequence expressions,
lazy values, mutable data and side-effects, generics, type augmentations, functional
decomposition and code organization.
The second half of the book is devoted to examining the practical application
of F#, providing elegant solutions to common programming tasks including UI
implementation, data access, web and distributed programming, symbolic and numerical
computations, concurrent programming, testing, profiling, and interoperability
with other languages. The latest hot developments in F# and .NET are also addressed,
including Active Patterns, implicit class construction, integration with LINQ
over relational data, meta programming and useful tips for working with Visual
Studio and F# command-line tools.
The world's foremost experts in F# show you how to program in F# the
way they do!
What you'll learn
- How to use F# for functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming
- How to code elegant F# solutions with expert technique and style
- How to develop Windows, web, graphics, and database applications in F#
- How to do numerical, concurrent, lexical, and symbolic processing in F#
- How to interoperate with C and COM
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone interested in state-of-the art .NET programming. Professional
programmers will find it engrossing. F# provides invaluable insight into the
future of both C# and VB, which are now adopting some (but far from all) of
the functional features of F#. Once they learn F#, few feel like returning to
either C# or VB. The academic community will find F# the answer to a decades-long
prayer: a language suitable for teaching computer science that also excites
and empowers students because it can be used not just in the classroom, but
also in the real world.
About the Authors
Don Syme is the main designer of F# and has been a functional programmer
since 1989. Since joining Microsoft Research in 1998, he's been a seminal contributor
to a wide variety of leading-edge projects, including generics in C# and the
.NET Common Language Runtime. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory in 1999.
Adam Granicz is the founder of IntelliFactory and a native of Hungary.
He has done research on extensible functional compilers, formal environments,
and domain-specific languages. He has consulted for EPAM Systems, the leading
software outsourcing company in CE Europe, and he is an industry domain expert
in gambling, airline and travel package distribution, reverse logistics, and
insurance/health-care. He holds a Master's degree from the California Institute
of Technology.
Antonio Cisternino is assistant professor in the Computer Science Department
of the University of Pisa. His primary research is on meta-programming and domain-specific
languages on virtual-machine-based execution environments. He's been active
in the .NET community since 2001, and recently developed annotated C#, an extension
of C#, and Robotics4.NET, a framework for programming robots with .NET. Antonio
holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pisa.
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