morcheeba's Journal: Ghost article: Book Reviews: Purely Functional Data Struc...

Following RobertB-DC's lead in ghost articles, here's one:

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Book Reviews: Purely Functional Data Structures Programming
Posted by timothy in The Mysterious Future!
from the raw-function-baby dept.
andrew cooke writes "A while ago I read the comments following a Slashdot book review. Someone had posted a request for books that covered a wider range of languages than Java, C, Python, etc. Well, I thought, why not review Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures? It's a classic from the underworld of functional programming - recognised as the standard reference, yet clear enough to work as an introduction to the subject for anyone with a basic functional programming background. Of course, some readers won't know what functional programming is, or what is special about pure data structures. So I hope that this review can also serve as something of an introduction to the languages that I (a software engineer paid to work with Java, C, Python, etc) choose to use in my spare time, just for the joy of coding." Read on for the rest; even if you're not planning to give up C or Perl, there are links here worth exploring.
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There wasn't any more to "read on", so I suspect it'll show up in its complete form later.