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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 21:51, Andrei Alexandrescu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org">SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">retard wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">I use the Okasaki book as my bible when talking about purely functional data structures.<br></blockquote><br>
</div>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.</blockquote>
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<div>I've only read his PhD a few months ago. Lots of mind-expanding ideas in there. </div>
<div>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...)</div>
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<div> Philippe</div>
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