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I got this from the library. It's absolutely heartbreaking, that poor girl.

This month's book club pick.

Written by the maintainers of Helm, I needed some context about the templates feature.

A lovely book, easy to read and clear. There are some typos in the code examples but that was literally always the case back then. It was a part of how you learnt I think, forced you into figuring it out.

It ends with a full game in z80 assembly which gives you routines for everything. He even goes through how you can write and test each in turn which is a more structured approach than I expected.

I'm messing around with building something on the spectrum, but after that will probably move to the gb for its hardware sprites and more sensible video memory layout.

Pretty short but clear book on Erlang. The first half consists of things I'm familiar with already (immutability, pattern matching, recursion, higher order functions). It was the last half that I was more interested in, process oriented programming and OTP. I'll have to read a more in depth book to understand it thoroughly, but it's a very interesting approach.

Alan Kay said Erlang is closer to what he meant by object oriented than Java or C++:

computinged.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/moti-asks-objects-never-well-hardly-ever/#comment-3766

"Hold my beer" -- Liz Truss

Apparently police are called bobbies because the Met was created by Sir Robert Peel.