[lbo-talk] The extreme Google brain

[Yann Morvan]

> On mercredi 29 avr. 09, at 22:48, Andy wrote:
>
>> I never really got into Lisp, but that's widely regarded as beautiful
>> too.  At long as you keep loops out of it, as God intended.

21st century beautiful would be Haskell


> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:04:16 +0100, JC Helary <brandelune at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> Paul Graham is a very interesting writer and reading his "Ansi Common  
> Lisp" is a really nice experience. I find most technical books boring to  
> death, but for some reason a number of Lisp (Scheme) books are not.
>

Paul Hudak's "The Haskell School of Expression" is a great read for a
programming language book.

Plus the whole pure functional programming thing might have a future,
what with the nice implications for doing data parallelism.

Yann