Dean gave a talk at Windy City Rails a few years ago that opened this (ruby) programmer's eyes to functional programming. I haven't read the book, but he's a very good educator.
Kenny On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Not sure whether this is good etiquette or not, but I wanted to > > praise http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920021667. I found it pretty > useful > > in bridging the gap between OO and FP. It isn't Clojure specific, but as > a > > (well established) Java/OO guy, this helped me "get FP". > > I think it's very helpful to see recommendations for books that help > people "get FP"! > > One of the problems for folks who've been "doing it" for a long time > (regardless of which "it" is under discussion) is that it can be > really hard to figure out how helpful a given book is for those who > are going thru the learning phase... (unless, perhaps, you are an > author targeting that audience!). > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ > > "Perfection is the enemy of the good." > -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
