just to put some meat on the bones.....

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Ihe Onwuka ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Forgive the skepticism but every time I have bought an FP book not written
> by an academic (i.e Practical this or Pragmatic that) I have regretted it.
>
>
and I'm not the only one ....like for example the people who bought this

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-OCaml-Joshua-B-Smith/dp/159059620X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399477240&sr=8-1&keywords=practical+ocaml



> It's either golly gosh wow look at this new powerful stuff, or much like
> imperative programming books it's a very subjective take on what functional
> programming should be about.
>

which reminds me of this
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Scala-Experts-Voice-Source/dp/1430219890/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399477500&sr=1-1&keywords=beginning+scala