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I haven't started it yet, but I have great expectations of ”Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner" by Hanson & Sussman.

Hopefully someone else can provide a review?

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I'm reading that right! It's cool. It's all Scheme, so get ready for that if you haven't seen it before. It's really interesting stuff though, all about how to make really extensible systems. I'm not sure how much I'll use the tools it talks about day to do, but it is really neat to have a much deeper understanding of things I often take for granted like pattern matching (regex) and generic dispatch and games solvers can be implemented from directly scratch.

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