Manning (12-2009) | PDF | 500 pages | 1933988924 | 3.9Mb

Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C# /by Tomas Petricek and Jon Skeet. Functional programming languages like F#, Erlang, and Scala are attracting attention as an efficient way to handle the new requirements for programming multi-processor and high-availability applications. Microsoft's new F# is a true functional language and C# uses functional language features for LINQ and other recent advances. Real World Functional Programming is a unique tutorial that explores the functional programming model through the F# and C# languages. The clearly presented ideas and examples teach readers how functional programming differs from other approaches. It explains how ideas look in F#-a functional language-as well as how they can be successfully used to solve programming problems in C#. Readers build on what they know about .NET and learn where a functional approach makes the most sense and how to apply it effectively in those cases. 
The reader should have a good working knowledge of C#. No prior exposure to F# or functional programming is required.