Introduction

This text is based on a short overview of the F# language that was included in my bachelor thesis, but I extended it to cover all the important F# aspects and topics. The goal of this article is to introduce all the features in a single (relatively short) text, which means that understanding of a few advanced topics discussed later in the text may require some additional knowledge or previous experience with functional programming.

Anyway, the article still tries to introduce all the interesting views on programming that the F# language provides and the goal is to show that these views are interesting, even though not all of them are fully explained as they would deserve. Of course, this text won’t teach you everything about F#, but it tries to cover the main F# design goals and (hopefully) presents all
the features that make F# interesting and worth learning. In this first part I will shortly introduce F# and the supported paradigms that will be discussed further in the text.