benjohn / fysh.org wrote:
> I'm interested in functional programming.
> 
> I'd really like to read a good book on it. It would have practical stuff
> in it, but also cover lots of the neat ideas (through practical
> examples), and perhaps areas of open research.
> 
> It would be aimed at someone who's very interested in programming, and
> does it as their day job, but has not really used a functional language
> professionally before.
> 
> Ideally it'd be written by Dave Thomas, and would be called "Programming
> Functionally: The pragmatic programmers guide" :-)
> 
> Any thoughts on this, or other ways to get in to it would be great (good
> blogs, wiki, mail groups, etc).
> 
> Thanks,
>   Benjohn
> 
> 
> 
The closest thing (and highly recommended) would be the recent Pragmatic
book "Programming Erlang". Erlang is a functional programming language,
it features built-in message-passing concurrency, *and* the book is very
well written. It wasn't *written* by Dave Thomas, but I'm sure he helped
*edit* it. Dave??