Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
Bruce Tate
5 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2015–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
Seriously, check out this book. It's delightful! It'll level you up as a software developer.
Certainly both. SLiSW was eye-opening. At the time, all I knew was PHP and JavaScript. For the past several years I have been writing Haskell almost exclusively.
It changed my life: I discovered Erlang, which finally got me into FP, and took me to Basho where I got a big leg up on distributed systems and databases.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in? 2022 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study? 2022 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? 2015 · 1 recommendation