it's probably a bit basic for experienced programmers - in particular "functional programming" needs a lot less explanation these days - but if you want some simple background it might help.
Sales were steady but trending downward, until 2004, when a book review by Andrew Cooke appeared on Slashdot. After that, sales doubled and have stayed at that level for several years. Of course, I can't be sure this increase was because of Slashdot, but it seems likely. Thanks, Andrew!
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i wrote a review of this (well, the book) for /. many years ago - http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/02/19/2257203.shtml
it's probably a bit basic for experienced programmers - in particular "functional programming" needs a lot less explanation these days - but if you want some simple background it might help.
From Okasaki's blog:
Sales were steady but trending downward, until 2004, when a book review by Andrew Cooke appeared on Slashdot. After that, sales doubled and have stayed at that level for several years. Of course, I can't be sure this increase was because of Slashdot, but it seems likely. Thanks, Andrew!
http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008/02/ten-years-of-purely-func...
heh; i hadn't seen that - thanks. :)