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I've read it and highly recommend it.

Does anyone know books that are similar in style? (conceptual, showcasing different solutions to problems and their tradeoffs, high signal-to-noise)



A little more theoretical, but for programming language, there's "Programming Language Pragmatics" which covers imperative, functional, logical PLs and everything needed to make them run from runtimes, linking, virtual machines etc. It's not as demanding or in-depth as e.g. the "Dragon book".

A few shorter books have come out that try to touch different approaches that I've liked: "Seven Languages in Seven weeks" -- and the series has also gained 7 databases, concurrency models and web frameworks.

Finally, there's this anthology where OSS authors described what they did in their applications, so there's a ton of practical information http://aosabook.org/en/index.html


Same question here. I am still reading this book but the way the author combines the concepts with the practices and the contents are structured really inspire me to keep reading. (Usually I gave up easily)


I have the same question, I thoroughly enjoy the book and would love to see similar recommendations. Maybe it could be a good ask HN post.




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