On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 21:51, Andrei Alexandrescu < [email protected]> wrote:
> retard wrote: > >> I use the Okasaki book as my bible when talking about purely functional >> data structures. >> > > It's an awesome book. It's also very frank and tells things as they are, as > opposed to others (*cough*) that patronize the reader by artificially making > it seem so easy, it's amazing how Stoopid People missed the point. > Un-incidentally, Okasaki does not dabble in qsort. He does describe > mergesort - a perfectly sound and advantageous sorting methods for lists. I've only read his PhD a few months ago. Lots of mind-expanding ideas in there. Someone told me the book is even better. Is it worth the 25-30 € I see on Amazon? (gosh, why I'm asking this when I'll spend thrice as much in food just for tonight's dinner...) Philippe
