On: Which programming book you just couldn’t stop read...

[danieldk]

I have never read a programming book from start to end, since most of them are either dry or not though-provoking. Three PL books that I liked very much are:

- Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis. An enjoyable introduction to Prolog and Natural Language analysis:

http://www.mtome.com/Publications/PNLA/pnla.html

http://www.mtome.com/Publications/PNLA/prolog-digital.pdf

- The Reasoned Schemer. I didn't read the other Schemer books, but liked this one very much. Simple and to the point.

- Purely Functional Data Structures, for showing how simple and elegant functional data structures can be.

[silentbicycle → danieldk]

Thanks for posting that Prolog/NLP book, I didn't know there was a free pdf. Same with your work-in-progress one: http://nlpwp.org/book/

My copy of _Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing_ just arrived in the mail, too. :D

Purely Functional Data Structures is excellent.