Ask the Author: Mark Seemann
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Mark Seemann
Thank you for writing.
When you read a book to learn something, hopefully it helps you achieve that goal. Once you've learned what you set out to, there's no reason to keep reading books helping you to learn what you already know.
I learned F# around 2010-2015, and haven't, for that reason, read a book about it since. Thus, I'm not up to date with more recent books that teach F#.
I completely agree that learning functional programming was a game changer for me, and I hope that it's still useful today.
When you read a book to learn something, hopefully it helps you achieve that goal. Once you've learned what you set out to, there's no reason to keep reading books helping you to learn what you already know.
I learned F# around 2010-2015, and haven't, for that reason, read a book about it since. Thus, I'm not up to date with more recent books that teach F#.
I completely agree that learning functional programming was a game changer for me, and I hope that it's still useful today.
Mark Seemann
Hi DHEERAJ Kumar, thank you for writing. I'm going to assume that you refer to this original article: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2010/12/02/Inter...
Be sure to also read the linked article by Krzysztof Cwalina: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kcwa...
As far as I can tell, interfaces and abstract classes are isomorphic to each other: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2018/02/19/abstr...
Some restrictions are required in order to make that claim truthful. These are covered by the discussion in the comments section on the same page.
HTH
Be sure to also read the linked article by Krzysztof Cwalina: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kcwa...
As far as I can tell, interfaces and abstract classes are isomorphic to each other: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2018/02/19/abstr...
Some restrictions are required in order to make that claim truthful. These are covered by the discussion in the comments section on the same page.
HTH
Mark Seemann
Hi DHEERAJ Kumar
Thank you for writing, and for your kind words. IIRC, the book's introduction "About this book" contains information about code downloads. It's not a repository, but a .zip file, which is basically because GitHub wasn't really the piece of developer infrastructure in 2012 that it is today.
Manning Press owns the copyright of the book, including the source code, so it's up to them what to do with the code, and how to host it. Since the copyright isn't mine, it'd be illegal for anyone but Manning to host it on GitHub.
HTH
Thank you for writing, and for your kind words. IIRC, the book's introduction "About this book" contains information about code downloads. It's not a repository, but a .zip file, which is basically because GitHub wasn't really the piece of developer infrastructure in 2012 that it is today.
Manning Press owns the copyright of the book, including the source code, so it's up to them what to do with the code, and how to host it. Since the copyright isn't mine, it'd be illegal for anyone but Manning to host it on GitHub.
HTH
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