内容简介

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.

作品目录

This book is currently in beta, so the contents and extracts will change as the book is developed.

Foreword

Introduction

The Lay of the Land

Bruce Tate (Elixir and Elm)

Fred Daoud (Factor)

Ian Dees (Lua, Idris)

Jack Moffit (Julia, miniKanren)

Who Should Read This Book

A Final Charge

Online Resources

Lua

Day 1: The Call to Adventure

Day 2: Tables All the Way Down

Day 3: Lua and the World

Wrapping Up Lua

Factor

Day 1: Stack On, Stack Off

Day 2: Painting the Fence

Day 3: Balancing on a Boat

Wrapping Up Factor

Elm

Day 1: Handling the Basics

Day 2: Taming Callbacks excerpt

Day 3: It’s All a Game

Wrapping Up Elm

Elixir

Day 1: Laying a Great Foundation excerpt

Day 2: Controlling Mutations

Day 3: Spawning and Respawning

Wrapping Up Elixir

Julia

miniKanren

Day 1: Unified Theories of Code

Day 2: Mixing the Logical and Functional

Day 3: Writing Stories with Logic excerpt

Wrapping Up miniKanren

Idris

Wrapping Up