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...

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