[Chicago] Best programming / dev book in 2015

[Jason Wirth]

I'm glad The Little Schemer was mentioned. I came across it in a talk by
Douglas Crockford speaking of the power of Javascript functions.
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/little.html
There a bunch of interesting books in the Little Schemer series, like the
Little Prover.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:19 AM kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Christopher Allan Webber <
> cwebber at dustycloud.org> wrote:
>
>> sheila miguez writes:
>>
>> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:01 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Clojure code.  It's not either / or.  Also, check out Hy.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Chris gave us a talk about Hy with singing!
>>
>> Yeah, Hy is great!  And I already agree it's worth checking out... in
>> addition to giving a talk, I've got some patches in it... and I wrote
>> most of the docs.... :)
>>
>
> I'm impressed!  My knowledge of Hy, and Clojure at this point, is not that
> deep.
>
> I'd like to get into a spiral where I go Python / Jython, Java, Clojure,
> around and around in a spiral.
>
> I don't want to "outgrow" OO (object oriented) as the price I pay for
> diving more deeply into a LISP (Clojure / Hy / Scheme / Racket).
>
> They should work together; positive synergies abound.  I agree SICP is an
> all time classic, as is TAOCP.
>
> Kirby
>
>
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