Re: A good book

Hi,

Chris Smith wrote:
> Similarly, he is not convinced of the need for writing significant
> amounts of code in declarative style, nor that the existence of a simple
> formal mathematical model behind relational databases is necessarily
> exploitable to produce better software.

There have been quite a few recommendations on the database side of the question, but to address the declarative style side of the question, how about :

"Why Functional Programming Matters", a paper originally from the early '80s by John Hughes, online at
http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html

or

"Programming in Prolog" by Clocksin & Mellish, published by Springer-Verlag (at Amazon :
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540583505/102-7626749-0791341?v=glance&n=283155 )

Hope these are of interest. Received on Sat Jul 08 2006 - 13:14:53 CEST