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| 2 | Welcome to the Pugs READTHEM file. |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | Nothing refreshes the brain after a long day of Pugs hacking like a good |
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| 6 | book. This file is a list of book recommendations from the Pugs Hackers |
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| 7 | themselves. |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | Feel free to add your favorite book or periodical to the list; it need not |
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| 10 | be just programming books, anything goes, really. |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | = Haskell - Highly Recommended |
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| 16 | Real World Haskell - Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen |
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| 17 | http://book.realworldhaskell.org/beta/ (to be published by O'Reilly) |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | = Haskell - Books: |
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| 21 | Programming in Haskell - Graham Hutton |
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| 22 | http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html (preview chapters) |
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| 23 | Algorithms: A Functional Programming Approach - Fethi A. Rabhi, Guy Lapalme |
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| 24 | The Haskell School of Expression - Paul Hudak |
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| 25 | Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming - Simon Thompson |
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| 26 | The Fun of Programming - Jeremy Gibbons, Oege de Moor (ed.) |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | = Haskell - Online: |
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| 30 | HaskellDemo - Shae Erisson (aka "shapr") |
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| 31 | http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellDemo |
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| 32 | Haskell Tutorial for C Programmers - Eric Etheridge |
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| 33 | http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/intro/intro.html |
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| 34 | Haskell - Various |
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| 35 | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell |
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| 36 | Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours - Jonathan Tang |
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| 37 | http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/%7Ejdtang/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overview.html |
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| 38 | Yet Another Haskell Tutorial - Hal Daume III |
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| 39 | http://pub.hal3.name/#daume02yaht |
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| 40 | (partial PDF -> KWID transcription in docs/yaht.kwid) |
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| 41 | Haskell Mini-Primer (this covers infix $ and . operators) |
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| 42 | http://conal.net/pan/haskell-primer.htm |
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| 43 | Monad Transformers Step by Step - Martin Grabmüller |
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| 44 | http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~magr/pub/Transformers.en.html |
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| 45 | Harrorth implementation journal - Yuval Kogman |
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| 46 | http://feather.perl6.nl/~nothingmuch/harrorth/ |
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| 47 | All About Monads - Jeff Newbern |
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| 48 | http://www.nomaware.com/monads/html/index.html |
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| 49 | How I/O can work in a purely functional language |
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| 50 | http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/197471.html - Evan Martin |
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| 51 | Applications of monads |
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| 52 | http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/198116.html - Evan Martin |
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| 53 | You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.) |
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| 54 | http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html |
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| 55 | - sigfpe |
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| 56 | why type classes are interesting |
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| 57 | http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/199837.html - Evan Martin |
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| 58 | Hitchhikers guide to Haskell |
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| 59 | http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hitchhikers_guide_to_Haskell |
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| 60 | Harrorth - Learning Haskell, Forth and Parrot - Together. |
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| 61 | http://perlcabal.org/~nothingmuch/harrorth/doc/ - Yuval Kogman |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | = Perl 6 (always outdated :)) |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials - Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold Tötsch |
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| 66 | Perl 6 Now: The core ideas illustrated with Perl 5 - Scott Walters |
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| 67 | Perl 6 Bible (Perl6::Bible) - Various Authors |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | = Compiler Implementation |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | MinCaml: A Simple and Efficient Compiler - Eijiro Sumii |
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| 72 | http://min-caml.sourceforge.net/paper.pdf |
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| 73 | |
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| 74 | = Databases - Books |
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| 76 | Databases, Types, and The Relational Model: The Third Manifesto |
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| 77 | 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2006 (ISBN: 0-321-39942-0) |
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| 78 | http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0321399420,00.html |
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| 79 | - Christopher J. Date, Hugh Darwen |
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| 80 | Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners |
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| 81 | 1st edition, Oreilly, 2005 (ISBN: 0-596-10012-4) |
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| 82 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/databaseid/ - Christopher J. Date |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | = Databases - Online |
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| 86 | A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks |
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| 87 | http://www.acm.org/classics/nov95/toc.html - Edgar F. Codd |
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| 88 | Reprinted from I<Communications of the ACM>, |
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| 89 | Vol. 13, No. 6, June 1970, pp. 377-387. |
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| 90 | Copyright © 1970, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. |
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| 92 | = Non-Haskell books |
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| 94 | Types and Programming Languages - Benjamin C. Pierce |
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| 95 | Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages - Benjamin C. Pierce |
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| 96 | Higher Order Perl - Mark Jason Dominus |
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| 97 | The Art of the MetaObject Protocol - Gregor Kiczales |
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| 99 | = None of the above |
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| 101 | The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien |
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| 102 | The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester |
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| 103 | Flow My Tears the Policeman Said - Phillip K. Dick |
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| 104 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon |
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| 105 | The Culture series - Iain M. Banks |
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| 106 | The Book of the New Sun tetralogy - Gene Wolfe |
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