[plt-scheme] Can you study HTDP to satisfy the goal to learn
Functional Programming?
Mark Engelberg
mark.engelberg at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 23:38:56 EDT 2008
I find that for me to really get a different style of programming, I
need to study large, nontrivial programs written in that style. For
me, HtDP doesn't really provide that. All the examples in the book
are too small.
Unfortunately, I can't recommend just one book for this purpose. Over
the years, I've read a large number of books written in a variety of
languages, and most books have one or two large programs to study, so
for me it's been more of a cumulative process. Of the books I've read
most recently, the new Erlang book comes to mind as having a couple
good extended examples of FP in action.
--Mark
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