functional fall: here's a gentle intro for those who are new like me

[Dustin <dustin.getz@gmail.com>]

hi everyone, I just read "Functional Programming for Java Developers"
from amazon, i found it an awesome intro to functional style, I found
the fundamental concepts articulated clearly enough that I can better
communicate with peers and colleagues who don't yet intuitively feel
the value of functional style.

the book took me about an hour to read front to back, it's like 50
pages. good stuff, in the beginning he implements the "Maybe" type
which we studied last night in Haskell, and goes into a nice summary
of algebraic data types and other helpful background to really grok
the stuff we talked about last night.

hopefully this is helpful to someone!

cheers,
the dude who asked too many questions :)