Acknowledgments

Thank you to all the people who have helped guide the book throughout the many forms it took over its development. The reviewers and MEAP participants provided invaluable guidance during this time to help me focus on getting to the real crux in many of the lessons. The list of reviewers includes Andy Kirsch, Anne Epstein, Bruno Sonnino, Dane Balia, Dmytro Lypai, Dylan Scott, Ernesto Cardenas Cangahuala, Jason Hales, Jiri Pik, Joel Clermont, Miranda Whurr, Panagiotis Kanavos, Sambaran Hazra, Stephen Byrne, Tim Djossou, and Wes Stahler. Thanks to you all. I’d like to reserve a special thank you for Tomas Petricek for his invaluable and extremely detailed feedback throughout the book, as well as Dustin Campbell for taking the time to put together a wonderful foreword. Also, thanks to the Manning team, including all my editors, for their guidance.

Thanks also to Don Syme and Microsoft for creating and then integrating F# into Visual Studio—my life as a software developer is much more pleasant for it! The F# community gets a huge thank you for providing feedback during the development of this book, but also for making F# such a fun and welcoming environment; I’ve learned so much also about working within the community as well as on open source projects in general.