I’m tired of learning new programming languages and thought seven additional somewhat esoteric languages wouldn’t be very useful. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I loved it. The languages were suitably interesting and compellingly presented, and I now want to experiment with them.
| → | Brian Sletten |
| President, Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. |
Languages are not just new syntax, they are new ways of thinking about problems. What is the best way to think about user interfaces or scientific computing or distributed systems or safety guarantees? As you dive into each of the languages in this book you will get a glimpse of new abstractions and principles that will help you write better programs in any language. Do it!
| → | Evan Czaplicki |
| Creator of Elm, Prezi |
If you think reading a book about programming languages won’t change your thinking about programming, I dare you to read the chapter on Idris—unless the idea of reasoning about your C++ (or C# or Java) code more clearly and reducing hundreds or thousands of lines of code down to two is not appealing to you, of course.
| → | Ted Neward |
| Author, speaker, mentor, Neward and Associates, LLC |
Just as an artist’s choice of oil, acrylic, or watercolor paint constrains the range of effects they can achieve, the languages we choose constrain the programs we can write. Learning a new language enables you to both conceive new solutions and express them in new ways. Read this book to add seven particularly interesting languages to your repertoire.
| → | Paul Butcher |
| Author of Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks |
Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks is a well-paced introduction to a set of fascinating languages that will be new to many. This one goes at just the right tempo and provides enough detail to be useful—but not so much as to douse natural curiosity. Definitely a book I would recommend to others wanting to expand their programming horizons.
| → | Matthew Wild |
| Author, Prosody IM XMPP server |
Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks not only introduces us to a wide spectrum of languages, but also challenges us on how we think about language use and design. Software development is a demanding career and learning new languages will always be essential. That is why the Seven in Seven series is one of the most invaluable reads for any serious programmer.
| → | Daniel Hinojosa |
| Developer, speaker, instructor, author of Testing in Scala |