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If you didn't read yet I would totally recommend these two:

- 7 languages in 7 weeks, as it makes you know and understand decisions about inclusion/exclusion of some language features, for instance why/when to use dynamic typed languages vs statically typed - Programming Language Pragmatics, 'the bible' for those looking for understand programming language implementation

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I personally didn't like the 7 languages book, to me it was a bit too shallow flavour of languages. The only take away from the book I had, was that IO looked to be a very sweet language to play with.

It was a textbook for a class I had on programming languages thou, and the class ended up not being the stuff I wanted to learn about so that may cloud my judgement.

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