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Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, youll go beyond the syntax-and beyond the 20-minute tutorial youll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book. Rather than serve as a complete reference or installation guide, Seven Languages hits whats essential and unique about each language. Moreover, this approach will help teach you how to grok new languages. For each language, youll solve a nontrivial problem, using techniques that show off the languages most important features. As the book proceeds, youll discover the strengths and weaknesses of the languages, while dissecting the process of learning languages quickly--for example, finding the typing and programming models, decision structures, and how you interact with them. Among this group of seven, youll explore the most critical programming models of our time. Learn the dynamic typing that makes Ruby, Python, and Perl so flexible and compelling. Understand the underlying prototype system thats at the heart of JavaScript.