"More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason." | ||
| -- William A. Wulf | ||
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program." | ||
| -- Linus Torvalds | ||
This chapter provides a detailed primer to one of the fundamental functional data structures in F#, that is, sequences. Functional programming and idiomatic expressions are amazing but, until you understand the fundamental constructs and how they work together, you cannot create meaningful expressions. One of the challenges that beginners find while learning functional programming is the trend to promote features instead of solving problems and explaining fundamentals. Some features are promoted to be so clever that the authors stop thinking about the problem and start focusing on the clever features; it is actually quite hard to resist.
We will explore...