Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

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 typi