+1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Simon Spero <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I would structure the book by task, showing how different languages would > implement the same task. > > For example, > > using a marc parsing library in java, groovy, python, ruby, perl, > c/c++/objective c, Haskell. > > Implementing same. > > Using a rest API > > Implementing a rest API > > Doing statistical analysis of catalog records, circulation data , etc. > > Doing knowledge based analysis of same > -- > Treatment of each topic and language is likely to be cursory at best, and I > am not sure who the audience would be. > > A series of "<language> for librarians" books would seem more useful and > easier to produce. > > Simon >