Sam Danielson

Intrigued by functional languages I set out with Haskell but like everyone else hit the Monad roadblock. In Haskell you can solve a game tree in three concise lines but actually asking the player for a move requires one to read several graduate level dissertations in CS and learn about set notation and category theory. WTƒ(g)! So being a bit more pragmatic I picked up this Apress book by Joshua B. Smith to learn more about Ocaml. Apress books in general are down and dirty. They seem to be geared toward the amature/enthusiast and they make pretty good entry-level books in that regard. This one pretty much fits that pattern but it's still more than I need to stay busy.