It's mostly a novelty today. Felleisen is a programming language theorist, and him writing a little Java tutorial sounds absurd.
The book itself takes you on a journey to reinvent the Visitor pattern, in a version of Java that predates generics. You can probably find a better explainer for the Visitor pattern in Java.
Which, it seems, is out of print and I guess because a lot of people want a complete set of this series, costs > 500USD to buy used?? Woah. I should get my hands on the others while they're still in print.
In the same series, there's also "A Little Java" by Matthias Felleisen, one of the creators of Racket (a popular Lisp).
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561150/a-little-java-a-few-p...
Is it still good? I see it was published in 1997.
I like the style of these books, and might read this one - I'm just worried that Java has changed quite a bit since then. Is it still, say, 90% OK?
It's mostly a novelty today. Felleisen is a programming language theorist, and him writing a little Java tutorial sounds absurd.
The book itself takes you on a journey to reinvent the Visitor pattern, in a version of Java that predates generics. You can probably find a better explainer for the Visitor pattern in Java.
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And The Little MLer.
Which, it seems, is out of print and I guess because a lot of people want a complete set of this series, costs > 500USD to buy used?? Woah. I should get my hands on the others while they're still in print.
You aren't helping him. :)
yeah, I just realized that too. screw it, I'll just grab all of them ;-)