Expert F# (c) by Apress



   The type of the release is: eBook

   In the PDF format with ISBN: 1590598504 and Pub Date: December 04, 2007

   The size of the release is: 03 disks x 2.88mb

   And released on: 01/08/2008





   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.

    

    Related Titles

   Foundations of F#



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