Customer Review: Expert F# does a great job explaining why and how you should use F#. It is not a general purpose tutorial on functional programming. The title "Expert" should be a hint that some (maybe... 25%?) of the topics are going to be advanced and move fast. If you're completely new to functional programming,... more info
Customer Review: I got this book for a CS class in college but never used it (professors just love you to waste your money that way). I recently came back to this book after getting really into Python, especially the functional features.
The approach the book takes is more or less instructing someone who... more info
Customer Review: I admit, I did not read the book very much. I looked through it and the format of everything was really weird. The code snippets used characters one cannot type in what seemed to me to be a variable width font. It bothered me for some reason.
Customer Review: If you are beginning to learn functional programming, this is a good book to study. It focuses much on the "no assignment" aspect of the functional style; a good place to start. And does this on one data structure after another allowing it to be easily understood by readers with a procedural... more info
Customer Review: Bird and Wadler got me started on functional programming. Before that, I'd only seen discussions of C++/STL functors and functions like for, map etcetera. B&W was dense, and magic. It reminded me of the first time I read the K&R C book, you're following along fine, and all of a sudden... more info
