What actually is Programming? Why do people say that some Programing language is good for a specific purpose and some are bad for the same?
This book talks about the "spine" of Programming. And definitely its for someone who wants to be an Architect in Software Industry rather than for the one who aim for being an efficient Laborer in the same!

this book is ideal for understanding different programming paradigms and learning the implementation differences in diff languages. covers C,C ,C#(was not present in previous edition),F#,ML,Python,Ruby,Ada,JS,PHP,Scheme,Haskell,Prolog... etc. brilliant division of chapters and thorough explanation of concepts.
con: the book is huge(some 1700 pages) thus only if you are serious about reading the entire book then purchase it; otherwise my suggestion would be to buy the previous edition. it is ...

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got delivered on time. Good packing by flipkart.