Re:Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
by DannoHung on Sunday October 25, 2009 @04:05AM
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I sincerely disagree.
I had a class on programming languages in college. It was one semester and went into very little depth of each language and paradigm covered. That said, I didn't know that half of the stuff that we were taught about existed before that class, and it spurred me to learn more and to learn at a greater depth.
I doubt that there's going to be any illusion about what this book is. Surveys are vital for new learners to help them build the cognitive maps of the knowledge space they need to be able to understand what they don't know. Maybe you don't talk to a lot of working programmers, but there are a frighteningly large number of people who just don't know anything about programming language syntax and paradigms not descended from Algol-68
I had a class on programming languages in college. It was one semester and went into very little depth of each language and paradigm covered. That said, I didn't know that half of the stuff that we were taught about existed before that class, and it spurred me to learn more and to learn at a greater depth.
I doubt that there's going to be any illusion about what this book is. Surveys are vital for new learners to help them build the cognitive maps of the knowledge space they need to be able to understand what they don't know. Maybe you don't talk to a lot of working programmers, but there are a frighteningly large number of people who just don't know anything about programming language syntax and paradigms not descended from Algol-68