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Grex Systems Item 120: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (the book and the challenge)
Entered by cross on Tue Dec 7 01:38:50 UTC 2010:

This item is for discussion of the book, "Seven Languages in Seven
Weeks", by Bruce Tate (2010, Pragmatic Programmers).

http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks

This book takes the reader through familiarization in seven different
programming languages:

Ruby,
Io,
Prolog,
Scala,
Erlang,
Clojure,
Haskell

Though not particularly in-depth in any of these, it gives one a
flavor for what each language is like and is enough to whet the
appetite to learn more.  If you're interested in a survey of some
new and upcoming languages, it's not a bad read.

In this item, I propse the "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks Challenge":
Get the book (paper or electronic) and work through it.  Discuss
your progress, ask questions and talk about each of the languages
in this item.  You can even work your way through the book here on
Grex: all seven languages are installed and available to the average
user!

Have at it, and have fun.

3 responses total.

#1 of 3 by kentn on Wed Dec 8 15:51:13 2010:

I've been looking on the web for this book and it varies a lot in price.
So if you shop online, check around.  The publisher's site (Pragmatic
Programmers) appeared to have a relatively good deal and was the only
place I looked that had the eBook.  You should be able to get the paper
version of the book for in the neigborhood of $22-24 if you look around.

#2 of 3 by kentn on Thu Jan 27 01:39:56 2011:

I ordered the 7 languages book from Amazon on Jan 4.  They've just now
shipped it.  That's faster than the April delivery date they gave me.
I guess they're practicing "underpromise and overdeliver" or something.

#3 of 3 by kentn on Fri Jan 28 19:32:22 2011:

Okay, the book arrived today.  Only took 24 days.  They must have had
to order more from publisher or something.

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