Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
Keep It Simple, Stupid
 
PerlMonks  

comment on

( [id://3333]=superdoc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

For all you out there who now want to learn about functional programming (and the other styles, too) - do yourself a favor and work through this excellent book:

<cite>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. The MIT Press, 1996. Second Edition.</cite>

This book has changed my programming world from ground up. Ok, agreed, it is "challenging", as they like to put it in some reviews. Don't mind. Go forward. Buy it. Read it. Study it. Do the exercises. It's simply the best single book on programming that I know, and the only book that I know that really captures a lot of the "Zen" of programming.

Update: This book is (incredibly) now available online. Thanks to the Arsdigita people! Great service to all programmers.

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com


In reply to RE: Why I like functional programming by clemburg
in thread Why I like functional programming by tilly

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
    <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
  • Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
  • Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.
Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others drinking their drinks and smoking their pipes about the Monastery: (3)
As of 2024-03-29 01:55 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found