#379 Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
Book notes - Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Languages That Are Shaping the Future, by Bruce A. Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud, Jack Moffitt. First published September 25, 2014.
Notes
The first sequel to the classic by Bruce Tate. Introduces a further set of languages: Lua, Factor, Elm, Elixir, Julia, miniKanren, Idris.
Contents
- 1 Lua
- Day 1: The Call to Adventure
- Day 2: Tables All the Way Down
- Day 3: Lua and the World
- Wrapping Up Lua
- 2 Factor
- Day 1: Stack On, Stack Off
- Day 2: Painting the Fence
- Day 3: Balancing on a Boat
- Wrapping Up Factor
- 3 Elm
- Day 1: Handling the Basics
- Day 2: Taming Callbacks
- Day 3: It’s All a Game
- Wrapping Up Elm
- See LCK#106 About Elm
- 4 Elixir
- Day 1: Laying a Great Foundation
- Day 2: Controlling Mutations
- Day 3: Spawning and Respawning
- Wrapping Up Elixir
- See LCK#105 About Elixir
- 5 Julia
- Day 1: Resistance Is Futile
- Day 2: Getting Assimilated
- Day 3: Become One with Julia
- Wrapping Up Julia
- 6 miniKanren
- Day 1: Unified Theories of Code
- Day 2: Mixing the Logical and Functional
- Day 3: Writing Stories with Logic
- Wrapping Up miniKanren
- 7 Idris
- Day 1: The Basics
- Day 2: Getting Started With Dependent Types
- Day 3: Dependent Types in Action
- Wrapping Up Idris
- Wrapping Up
- The Origins
- The Central Expressway
- The Frontier
- The Dirty Map
- A Final Challenge
Source Code
Source code is available from the Pragmatic Programmers listing. Getting the sources:
wget https://media.pragprog.com/titles/7lang/code/7lang-code.zip
unzip 7lang-code.zip
rm 7lang-code.zip
Credits and References
- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
- examples source (zip)