[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > I can't imagine NOT getting enthusiastic and stimulated by reading Van > Roy and Hariri's book -- it IS quite as good and readable as SICP.
It's been on my want-to-read list for a long time. I have the downloaded draft edition (from before the print edition came out) and it looks quite good. The Oz language has some interesting approaches. > Ruby's also blessed with good books (and the excellent Rails, too). I haven't been terribly interested in Ruby; it may have a more rigorous OO approach than Python, but Smalltalk already did that decades ago. So Ruby seems like yet another Perl-like language. Am I missing something? Do you have any opinion of "Types and Programming Languages" by Pierce? Autrijus Tang (the guy who started PUGS, the Perl 6 implementation in Haskell) raves about it in an interview, and another guy I know recommended it too, but I haven't actually looked at a copy yet (stores I've looked in don't have it). Haskell is the language that I guess interests me the most these days (in terms of learning new ones), but I haven't yet attempted doing anything with it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list