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It's the best book about data structures in functional programming, as relevant today as when it was published almost fifteen (gasp) years ago. You can get a f
by how_gauche 13y ago
It's the best book about data structures in functional programming, as relevant today as when it was published almost fifteen (gasp) years ago.
You can get a flavor of the book by reading Okasaki's PhD thesis: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
The book is essentially a fleshed-out version of this thesis.
- hamidr 13y agoWhy there's no updated book out there (in the cold!) ?
- cmarschner 13y agoSee here why not: http://okasaki.blogspot.de/2008/02/ten-years-of-purely-functional-data.html?m=1 http://okasaki.blogspot.de/2008/02/ten-years-of-purely-funct...
- keithpeter 13y ago"That changed one day during a walk in the snow." The paragraph that follows this phrase in the OA is straight out of The psychology of invention in the mathematical field by Jacques Hadamard.