Great programmers aren't born--they're made. The industry is moving from
object-oriented languages to functional languages, and you need to
commit to radical improvement. New programming languages arm you with
the tools and idioms you need to refine your craft. While other language
primers take you through basic installation and "Hello, World," we aim
higher. Each language in Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks will take
you on a step-by-step journey through the most important paradigms of
our time. You'll learn seven exciting languages: Lua, Factor, Elixir,
Elm, Julia, MiniKanren, and Idris.
Learn from the award-winning programming series that inspired the Elixir
language. Hear how other programmers across broadly different
communities solve problems important enough to compel language
development. Expand your perspective, and learn to solve multicore and
distribution problems.
In each language, you'll solve a non-trivial problem, using the
techniques that make that language special. Write a fully functional
game in Elm, without a single callback, that compiles to JavaScript so
you can deploy it in any browser. Write a logic program in Clojure using
a programming model, MiniKanren, that is as powerful as Prolog but much
better at interacting with the outside world. Build a distributed
program in Elixir with Lisp-style macros, rich Ruby-like syntax, and the
richness of the Erlang virtual machine. Build your own object layer in
Lua, a statistical program in Julia, a proof in code with Idris, and a
quiz game in Factor.
When you're done, you'll have written programs in five different
programming paradigms that were written on three different continents.
You'll have explored four languages on the leading edge, invented in the
past five years, and three more radically different languages, each with
something significant to teach you.
