Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you'll go beyond the syntax-and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you'll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book. Rather than serve as a complete reference or installation guide, Seven Languages hits what's essential and unique about each language. Moreover, this approach will help teach you how to grok new languages.
For each language, you'll solve a nontrivial problem, using techniques that show off the language's most important features. As the book proceeds, you'll discover the strengths and weaknesses of the languages, while dissecting the process of learning languages quickly--for example, finding the typing and programming models, decision structures, and how you interact with them.
Among this group of seven, you'll explore the most critical programming models of our time. Learn the dynamic typing that makes Ruby, Python, and Perl so flexible and compelling. Understand the underlying prototype system that's at the heart of JavaScript. See how pattern matching in Prolog shaped the development of Scala and Erlang. Discover how pure functional programming in Haskell is different from the Lisp family of languages, including Clojure.
Explore the concurrency techniques that are quickly becoming the backbone of a new generation of Internet applications. Find out how to use Erlang's let-it-crash philosophy for building fault-tolerant systems. Understand the actor model that drives concurrency design in Io and Scala. Learn how Clojure uses versioning to solve some of the most difficult concurrency problems.
It's all here, all in one place. Use the concepts from one language to find creative solutions in another-or discover a language that may become one of your favorites.
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
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点子不错,缺乏洞见
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语言比算法更重要
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从众多语言中,挑出本书包含的几门语言,这一过程也许不像你想得那么复杂。我们只不过发了些调查问卷,向本书的潜在读者请教了一番。调查数据汇总上来时,有八门语言入选希望最大。不过,我先是把JavaScript“踢”了出去,因为它实在是过于热门了,取而代之的是原型语言中热门程度仅次于JavaScript的I...
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10有用 1无用 出版圈郭志敏 2012-05-11
编者按在本文中,截选了七门各不相同的语言的概况,这七门语言,无论教还是学,对我们而言都是一个宏伟目标。书中的代码足以深刻阐释每一门语言的精髓。这七门语言都有非常优秀的支持社区,这也是我选择它们的原因之一。本书为你铺就的学习途径......第一周:Ruby有糖相伴好下药。——Mary Poppins松...
书名: 七周七语言
作者: [美] Bruce A·Tate
出版社: 人民邮电出版社
原作名: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A
副标题: 理解多种编程范型
译者: 巨成 | 戴玮 | 白明
出版年: 2012-5-8
页数: 246
定价: 59.00元
装帧: 平装
ISBN: 9787115276117