When I was on my Gap Year, I came across this book while practicing on codecademy. I only looked at the chapter on Ruby, and at that time I thought knowing Go
was already quite geeky.
A year later, when the company I am currently working for was refactoring the backend, we considered using Scala
. One of my friends, thinking that game development had higher salaries, decided to learn Erlang
. I attended a sharing session at a Thoughtworks event and heard about Clojure
.
Upon revisiting this book, I suddenly realized it covered Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell
.
I felt like I had been looking at the sky from the bottom of a well. Upon flipping through this book again, I realized that I donβt really need to read it.
So if you are just curious and want to satisfy your curiosity, you can take a look, but if you want to seriously learn, itβs better to skip it.