Chapter 2. Now Lazily Get Over It, Again
"Ah yes, Haskell. Where all the types are strong, all the men carry arrows, and all the children are above average." | ||
| -- marked trees (on the city of Haskell) | ||
The perceived adversity of functional programming is overly exaggerated; the essence of this paradigm is to explicitly recognize and enforce the referential transparency. The previous chapter was an attempt to convince you about how amazing functional programming is; you saw some examples and read about some promised features but understandably, you are still little bit skeptical. This chapter will prepare you to delve into the F# fundamentals that we are going to utilize later.
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