Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by newacctjhro on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:24AM (#18111111)

I would add Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. It's about programming paradigms in general, and helps in contextualizing functional programming in a broader context

https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by charlysl on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:12PM (#18114021)

This book is indeed mind blowing, and after reading it I find all those FP vs OO arguments sterile. As you say, this book makes you understand that it's all a trade-off.

In fact what this book does is advocate multiparadigm languages (actually the author dislikes the term paradigm, multiple programming models would be more acurate), and explains in great detail how to decide which to use when, and how to mix different paradigms (ehem, models) with the very powerful technique of impedance matching.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by smittywerben on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:43PM (#18136999)

Thanks for this. I do not see enough context in school.

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