From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T18:37:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Programming

On 8/24/07, benjohn@fysh.org <benjohn@fysh.org> wrote:
> Thanks (everyone) for your suggestions.
>
> *snip*
>
> > Or you can just skip the books and simply stop assigning to
> > variables ;)
>
> That's very much my programming style. I wonder if it comes from the
> small amount of functional programming that I studied :-)
>
> I guess what I'm intersted in is the techniques or patterns that come up
> in functional programs. Program transformation seems to be something
> that gets used a lot, for example... I think the ideal for me would be a
> reasonably gentle intro to a language (or perhaps a few - there are
> quite a lot of those kinds of tutorials on the web though), and then a
> series of article like chapters that cover interesting ways of using the
> language.

Well I feel that "Programming Erlang" really is what you are looking,
for. I am not finished with it, but the "gentle introduction" seems to
fit perfectly.
I tried OCaml, Haskell first but I did not find anything like
"Programming Erlang" to walk me into the concepts...

Robert

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