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I am not sure how great it is. My impression was it skips and jumps around the language territory. For example, as I looked through the Clojure chapter, I knew
by cema 16y ago
I am not sure how great it is. My impression was it skips and jumps around the language territory. For example, as I looked through the Clojure chapter, I knew I would not understand the language if I had not had studied it before.
- bendmorris 16y agoI found the book very useful. The idea isn't to give you a deep understanding of the language, it's more along the lines of: introduce some cool concepts that you may not have seen before, and encourage you to do your own thing to learn the language. It also gives a quick introduction with examples to several different programming paradigms that many are unfamiliar with. The Haskell part is not particularly deep either, but it gives you some basics and gets you started.
- sanderjd 16y agoI really loved the book, but I do think the title is misleading - for me, it was really "familiarize yourself with the concepts of seven languages in two or three weeks". It's clearly a marketing title, which is a bit off-putting, but a great introduction to the included languages.