Go rant

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 21:51, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>> 
> 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...)

If you could ingest his thesis, you'll like the book, which is an 
expansion of the ideas therein.

Andrei