I feel that way about anything that tries to explain concepts with cartoons. “why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby” as a prime example of something I can’t look at for 5 minutes without wanting to burn it. Yet I know that lots of people are big fans of this approach. So I can only deduce that the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you may not be right for some.
Personally, I put The Little Lisper/Schemer on the “Greatest Programming Books Ever” shelf, next to The C Programming Language. I found the style captivating — and insidious. The first time I read it, I thought I was learning a programming language, but it subliminally reprogrammed my brain to see recursion everywhere.
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I feel that way about anything that tries to explain concepts with cartoons. “why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby” as a prime example of something I can’t look at for 5 minutes without wanting to burn it. Yet I know that lots of people are big fans of this approach. So I can only deduce that the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you may not be right for some.
Personally, I put The Little Lisper/Schemer on the “Greatest Programming Books Ever” shelf, next to The C Programming Language. I found the style captivating — and insidious. The first time I read it, I thought I was learning a programming language, but it subliminally reprogrammed my brain to see recursion everywhere.