http://www.gideondsouza.com:80/Tags/HaskellGideon Dsouza - Haskellhttp://www.gideondsouza.com:80/blog/learning-from-seven-languages-in-seven-weeks<p>Lately I've been trying to break out of my <em>MS stack</em> shell and learn some new things. I've been writing C# now for about 5 years and using visual studio since v6 so its its been slightly hard to adapt to newer things.</p> <p>Sometime ago on a <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/">Channel9</a> talk I heard about this book, and finally it was available in an Indian Edition (which means it's affordable)</p> <blockquote> <p>Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages </p> <p><img src="http://www.gideondsouza.com/Media/Default/BlogPost/blog/book_cover.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p> </blockquote> <p>This book is thoroughly interesting because it whizzes through seven different languages, they are : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29">Ruby</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_%28programming_language%29">Io</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog">Prolog</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%29">Scala</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29">Erlang</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure">Clojure</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29">Haskell</a></p> <p>The book is divided into a section for each programming language, I'm almost through with the first one, Ruby. The author is funny and smart and most of all talks to you like a programmer. He distills the little nuances of the language and tells you what you need to know. </p> <p>As I go through the book I hope to blog about each language and what I've learned.</p> Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:21:46 GMThttp://www.gideondsouza.com:80/blog/learning-from-seven-languages-in-seven-weeks