READTHEM

   1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   2                     Welcome to the Pugs READTHEM file.
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   4
   5 Nothing refreshes the brain after a long day of Pugs hacking like a good
   6 book. This file is a list of book recommendations from the Pugs Hackers
   7 themselves.
   8
   9 Feel free to add your favorite book or periodical to the list; it need not
  10 be just programming books, anything goes, really.
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  13
  14 = Haskell - Highly Recommended
  15
  16 Real World Haskell         - Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen
  17     http://book.realworldhaskell.org/beta/ (to be published by O'Reilly)
  18
  19 = Haskell - Books:
  20
  21 Programming in Haskell                                       - Graham Hutton
  22     http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html (preview chapters)
  23 Algorithms: A Functional Programming Approach  - Fethi A. Rabhi, Guy Lapalme
  24 The Haskell School of Expression                                - Paul Hudak
  25 Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming                - Simon Thompson
  26 The Fun of Programming                  - Jeremy Gibbons, Oege de Moor (ed.)
  27
  28 = Haskell - Online:
  29
  30 HaskellDemo                                     - Shae Erisson (aka "shapr")
  31     http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellDemo
  32 Haskell Tutorial for C Programmers                          - Eric Etheridge
  33     http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/intro/intro.html
  34 Haskell                                                            - Various
  35     http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell
  36 Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours                          - Jonathan Tang
  37     http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/%7Ejdtang/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overview.html
  38 Yet Another Haskell Tutorial                                 - Hal Daume III
  39     http://pub.hal3.name/#daume02yaht
  40     (partial PDF -> KWID transcription in docs/yaht.kwid)
  41 Haskell Mini-Primer                    (this covers infix $ and . operators)
  42     http://conal.net/pan/haskell-primer.htm
  43 Monad Transformers Step by Step                          - Martin Grabmüller
  44     http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~magr/pub/Transformers.en.html
  45 Harrorth implementation journal                               - Yuval Kogman
  46     http://feather.perl6.nl/~nothingmuch/harrorth/
  47 All About Monads                                              - Jeff Newbern
  48     http://www.nomaware.com/monads/html/index.html
  49 How I/O can work in a purely functional language
  50     http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/197471.html     - Evan Martin
  51 Applications of monads
  52     http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/198116.html     - Evan Martin
  53 You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)
  54     http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html
  55                                                                     - sigfpe
  56 why type classes are interesting
  57     http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/199837.html     - Evan Martin
  58 Hitchhikers guide to Haskell
  59     http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hitchhikers_guide_to_Haskell
  60 Harrorth - Learning Haskell, Forth and Parrot - Together.
  61     http://perlcabal.org/~nothingmuch/harrorth/doc/           - Yuval Kogman
  62
  63 = Perl 6 (always outdated :))
  64
  65 Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials  - Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold Tötsch
  66 Perl 6 Now: The core ideas illustrated with Perl 5           - Scott Walters
  67 Perl 6 Bible (Perl6::Bible)                                - Various Authors
  68
  69 = Compiler Implementation
  70
  71 MinCaml: A Simple and Efficient Compiler                      - Eijiro Sumii
  72     http://min-caml.sourceforge.net/paper.pdf
  73
  74 = Databases - Books
  75
  76 Databases, Types, and The Relational Model: The Third Manifesto
  77     3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2006 (ISBN: 0-321-39942-0)
  78     http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0321399420,00.html
  79                                           - Christopher J. Date, Hugh Darwen
  80 Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners
  81     1st edition, Oreilly, 2005 (ISBN: 0-596-10012-4)
  82     http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/databaseid/         - Christopher J. Date
  83
  84 = Databases - Online
  85
  86 A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
  87     http://www.acm.org/classics/nov95/toc.html               - Edgar F. Codd
  88     Reprinted from I<Communications of the ACM>,
  89     Vol. 13, No. 6, June 1970, pp. 377-387.
  90     Copyright © 1970, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
  91
  92 = Non-Haskell books
  93
  94 Types and Programming Languages                         - Benjamin C. Pierce
  95 Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages      - Benjamin C. Pierce
  96 Higher Order Perl                                       - Mark Jason Dominus
  97 The Art of the MetaObject Protocol                         - Gregor Kiczales
  98
  99 = None of the above
 100
 101 The Silmarillion                                            - J.R.R. Tolkien
 102 The Demolished Man                                           - Alfred Bester
 103 Flow My Tears the Policeman Said                           - Phillip K. Dick
 104 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time              - Mark Haddon
 105 The Culture series                                           - Iain M. Banks
 106 The Book of the New Sun tetralogy                               - Gene Wolfe