Wow, I would really like to get this book to complete my set of the Little Schemer, the Seasoned Schemer and the Reasoned Schemer. But 55$ is almost twice as expensive as the other books. Yes, it is bigger than those but still...
The little schemer is $40 now, reasoned schemer is $30, and the little typer is $38 (about twice as thick as the other two).
I had to think on the little schemer, but grabbed it because my ten year old said that the little typer was "interesting", and I thought he might learn something from it.
Probably should finish working through what I have before getting another, though.
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.
Thanks. I see it for sale for Β£4 second hand, so maybe I should buy it for the novelty value alone. I presume I shouldn't try to refresh my java from it though.
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.
Have to think about this for a while :)