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On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:04 PM, davep davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Many functional programming > books begin by focusing on the more difficult concepts such as > recursion and immutability. They are not more difficult, they are just different > This book lets you dive right in to > functional programming by teaching the most useful implementation > concepts first. > > It would be fascinating (illuminating I doubt it) to discover what concepts the author considers to be more useful than recursion and immutability. 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. 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. With very few exceptions the best books on learning FP were all written at least 10 years ago.
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