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Any suggestions for a pragmatism-oriented functional programming book? It seems like a lot of inspirational/philosophical books on software development processe

Any suggestions for a pragmatism-oriented functional programming book? It seems like a lot of inspirational/philosophical books on software development processes and patterns can't shake the object-oriented examples, even when they try to be as general as possible.

efuquen 12y ago
Functional Programming in Scala would be my suggestion: http://www.amazon.com/Functional-Programming-Scala-Paul-Chiusano/dp/1617290653 http://www.amazon.com/Functional-Programming-Scala-Paul-Chiu... I would consider it an updated and more practically minded version of SICP, which is of course amazing as well but not the sort of book you asked for.
smikhanov 12y ago
How To Design Programs http://htdp.org http://htdp.org Many people consider it essential reading similar on its importance to SICP. Re the original poster's list: most of those books are terrible, in my opinion.
sukilot 12y ago
Pragmatism and Functional programming are not bedfellows. Effective Java (!) may be a contender, as it teaches about avoiding mutable state, composition over inheritance, etc