Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks

Foreword

This book tells a story.

That sentence may seem like a strange first thought for a book, but the idea is important to me. You see, we turn away dozens of proposals for Seven in Seven books from authors who think they can throw together seven disjointed essays and call it a book. That’s not what we’re about.

The original Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages [Tat10] story was that object-oriented programming languages were good for their time, but as pressures built around software complexity and concurrency driven by multicore architectures, functional programming languages would begin to emerge and would shape the way we program. Paul Butcher was one of the most effective reviewers ...