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If they're desperate, please tell someone to write a book for noobs. I opened The Book of F# and recoiled in horror. The whole book was basically if you're a C#
by throwaway7645 10y ago
If they're desperate, please tell someone to write a book for noobs. I opened The Book of F# and recoiled in horror. The whole book was basically if you're a C# expert, here is how F# is different...or at least a lot of it.
- yawaramin 10y agoSorry, you picked the wrong book to start with. Its blurb page says: 'If you're a traditional .NET developer used to C# and Visual Basic, discovering F# will be a revelation that will change how you code.... Break free of that old school of programming.' Try Pickering & Eason's Beginning F# 4.0; its intro has a 'Who Is This Book For?' section, which says: 'This book is aimed primarily at IT professionals.... A working knowledge of the .NET framework ... would be nice, but it's not necessary.'
- throwaway7645 10y agoLol I learned that very fast while reading through :) Isn't 4.0 pretty far out of date now?
- yawaramin 10y agoJust putting it out there for the next person who sees this :-) F# 4.0 is not really out of date. The language is fairly fixed now--apart from fixing buggy behaviour actually. Part of it is that the general ML syntax is pretty timeless--all ML books share this advantage. As for F# specifically, all the headline functionality--type providers, quotations etc.--has been there for a while. I expect books covering 4.0 to be remarkably future-proof.
- throwaway7645 10y agoThanks!