An Introduction to F# for Functional Programming

This paper addresses functional programming, the main concepts and differences compared to other paradigms, and how F# helps the developer get up to speed and produce results. This paper quickly lays the groundwork and then guides the developer on translating and/or interfacing with the existing code. Apart from the implications in computational complexity - mainly that it is easier to design an algorithm to verify an alleged result than to come up with one that produces the right result - an important lesson is to think unconventionally and apply clever and well-founded ideas to produce success.