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You saw in Chapter 1 that pure functional programming treats everything as a value, including functions. Although F# is not a pure functional language, it does encourage you to program in the functional style; that is, it encourages you to use expressions and computations that return a result, rather than statements that result in some side effect. In this chapter, you’ll survey the major language constructs of F# that support the functional programming paradigm and learn how they make it easier to program in the functional style.
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Pickering, R., Eason, K. (2016). Functional Programming. In: Beginning F# 4.0. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1374-2_3
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