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Re: An "if" without "if"

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From Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com>
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Subject Re: An "if" without "if"
Date Mon, 4 Jul 2016 01:08:26 -0000 (UTC)
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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
> Scott Sauyet wrote:

>> Another very interesting work which proceeds the same way is Reg
>> Braithwaite's _JavaScript Allongé_, either the original edition [1] or
>> the ES6 one [2].
>> 
>> To my mind, this is one of the very best books yet written on
>> Javascript.
>> 
>>   [1]: https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge 
>>   [2]: https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix
> 
> 
> It looks like this writing was inspired somewhat by the style of the
> book series by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen:
> 
> "The Little Schemer"
> "The Seasoned Schemer"
> "The Reasoned Schemer"
> and others in the collection

That's an interesting observation.  I've read those, as well as _The 
Little MLer_ and _The Little Prover_, and I did not make that 
connection.  I can certainly see some overlap, but Braithwaite's style 
here seems _sui generis_.

Clearly there is a focus on simple explanations and building up from a 
very small basis, but that's about all I find in common stylistically.  
Nonetheless, I very much enjoy both styles.

  -- Scott


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Re: An "if" without "if" andber93@web.de - 2016-06-02 02:16 +0200
  Re: An "if" without "if" Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 12:37 +0200
    Re: An "if" without "if" Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2016-07-03 00:13 +0000
      Re: An "if" without "if" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-03 11:07 +0100
      Re: An "if" without "if" "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-07-03 10:29 -0700
        Re: An "if" without "if" Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2016-07-04 01:08 +0000
      Re: An "if" without "if" John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-04 14:49 +0100

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