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]]> By: tim http://anthonylewis.com/2007/11/03/the-little-schemer/comment-page-1/#comment-48 tim Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:29:26 +0000 http://anthonylewis.com/2007/11/03/the-little-schemer/#comment-48 I agree, it is one of the most well-written books ever about programming, and it's the first book to read for functional programming. (though all those pictures of food always made me hungry =)) I think it starts out kinda slow, but if you understand the last chapters (y-combinator and interpreting scheme) then you see why lisp is so powerful. Another great functional programming book specifically for python is Text Processing in Python.. You can't tell by the book title but the author's programming style is very different if you have not done functional programming before. Anyway, haven't read the book in close to a year, maybe should pick it back up again, esp. since most of my work these days is in java/c-type languages. Maybe time to start doing this stuff in java =) http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlocksInJavaIntro I agree, it is one of the most well-written books ever about programming, and it’s the first book to read for functional programming. (though all those pictures of food always made me hungry =))

I think it starts out kinda slow, but if you understand the last chapters (y-combinator and interpreting scheme) then you see why lisp is so powerful.

Another great functional programming book specifically for python is Text Processing in Python..
You can’t tell by the book title but the author’s programming style is very different if you have not done functional programming before.

Anyway, haven’t read the book in close to a year, maybe should pick it back up again, esp. since most of my work these days is in java/c-type languages.

Maybe time to start doing this stuff in java =)
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlocksInJavaIntro

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