Thread by @luskwater

If you feel like entering on a study of #functionalProgramming, @EricNormand 's Grokking Simplicity (from Manning) is really good.
manning.com/books/grokking…

Since the time it became available as an early-access book in August 2019, I’ve been working through it (and providing him lots of feedback).

It shows how—and why—to do functional programming, using really basic JavaScript as a demo language: no Lisp, no Haskell, no Erlang.

(Well, he mentions they exist.)

When he told us that he had cut back on the content for the book to keep the size down, I was disappointed, but not any more:

he has packed a lot of helpful information into it in a way that is worth diving into (and very accessible).

I've been using #clojure for nearly 13 years now, and this still taught me a great deal.

(I hope I won't some day find that I've been writing COBOL in #Clojure all this time.)

It may be as influential on my work as the day in 1994 when I picked up the GoF's brand-new Design Patterns for the first time.

Perhaps working out through mentoring now like this did back in 1995

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