For those of you who aren't familiar with the author's other works, it's worth taking a peek at his other books. I can whole heatedly recommend Pearls of Func

For those of you who aren't familiar with the author's other works, it's worth taking a peek at his other books. I can whole heatedly recommend Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design http://www.amazon.com/Pearls-Functional-Algorithm-Design-Richard/dp/0521513383 http://www.amazon.com/Pearls-Functional-Algorithm-Design-Ric... It's a good cross between two other excellent books: - Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Jon-Bentley/dp/0201657880 http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Jon-Bentley/dp/... and - Chris Okasaki's Purely Function Data Structures http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Okasaki/dp/0521663504 http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Oka.... If you haven't read all three, its well worth your while to do so! And of course if you are going down the rabbit hole of reading Perls of Functional Algorithm Design then you need to read the "how to read Pearls of Functional Algorithm design" as well. http://www.atamo.com/blog/how-to-read-pearls-by-richard-bird-1/ http://www.atamo.com/blog/how-to-read-pearls-by-richard-bird...