[identity profile] bracknellexile.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed. Having neither any formal comp-sci education at uni level (astrophysics, while fun, doesn't really prepare you for a career in programming), nor come across functional programming before (or if I have, not realising it as such), it's nice to find an article that makes no assumptions and clarifies the basic principles.

Having skim-read the article I can see the fundamental ideas behind it and, once the boss gets round to upgrading my VS version, actually have an interest in going and looking at F# now.