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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks

by Bruce Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud, Jack Moffitt
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 8m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Bruce Tate (Elixir, Elm)

I am Bruce Tate, a mountain biker, kayaker, and father of two from Austin, Texas. Currently, as CTO of icanmakeitbetter.com, I run a small team of programmers in Ruby, but will move into Elixir development soon. You probably know me as the author of the first book in the Seven in Seven series, Seven Languages in Seven Weeks [Tat10].

Elixir

I chose Elixir because it is a unique combination of a pure functional language on the Erlang virtual machine with a rich Ruby-like syntax and Lisp-style macros. Syntax matters to me, maybe more than anything else. Representing ideas to English speakers requires a rich and powerful syntax.

Elm

I chose Elm because it represents a radical departure from the callback-centric style of ...

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