7 Langs/7 Weeks is such a great book. I was intrigued by Io, but enthralled by Erlang, which ended up taking my career on a wildly different path, if only briefly.

RIP Basho, and thanks Bruce Tate.

Same here, I discovered IO in 7 languages in 7 weeks, and loved how elegant it was.

Curious about 7 Languages in 7 Weeks. For a reader new to all its languages, is it actually readable in seven weeks, and if so, full time?

If you do the exercises it might take seven weeks at a few hours each. If you don't, you could read the book in a night. I don't think I finished it (it was a work bookclub that died out halfway); now would definitely be good time to go back. There's a second book in the series I wanted to try for Elm and Elixir.

I read it over a couple of weeks of sitting out in a pub beer garden on evenings I wasn't doing anything else.

I almost certainly didn't learn everything there was to learn from the book in the process, but I definitely felt like I'd got my value for money out of it.

Sounds about right for a couple of weeks in a summer locked indoors. Thanks

I read about it there too, but maybe I misremembered it.

I cam away with the distinct impression that the great thing about IO was the interpreter could be modified (ala lisp) by adding or removing functions, and as such it was an easy language to create functional "sandboxes" in by just creating a subclass and modifying the available method.

But I can find no mention of that on the projects docs..