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Flesch Reading Ease Score of several programming books
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| % xargs -i sh -c 'echo -n "{} @ "; pdftotext "{}" - 2>/dev/null | ruby -e "require \"lingua\"; p Lingua::EN::Readability.new(STDIN.read).flesch"' < /tmp/books | sort -t@ -k2n | |
| scheme/sicp.pdf @ 42.013863374063305 | |
| smalltalk/Joy of Smalltalk.pdf @ 47.861949781603954 | |
| falcon/Falcon Survival Guide.pdf @ 52.899363840845155 | |
| ruby/The Rails 3 Way.pdf @ 55.05629641057524 | |
| c/The C Programming Language.pdf @ 55.17174939358114 | |
| python/Learning Python.pdf @ 56.67476157760058 | |
| c++/C++ Primer.pdf @ 57.237840064930595 | |
| ruby/The Ruby Programming Language.pdf @ 57.75836947304364 | |
| haskell/Real World Haskell.pdf @ 58.23158652909788 | |
| ruby/Design Patterns In Ruby.pdf @ 58.38115962344389 | |
| lisp/Practical Common Lisp.pdf @ 62.514780602200034 | |
| javascript/JavaScript the Good Parts.pdf @ 63.33751151248492 | |
| lisp/Land of Lisp.pdf @ 63.483137453276356 | |
| prolog/Prolog Programming in Depth.pdf @ 63.65984334298793 | |
| ruby/The Well-Grounded Rubyist.pdf @ 64.18684385077023 | |
| prolog/Programming In Prolog.pdf @ 66.27630065565701 | |
| ocaml/Introduction to Objective Caml.pdf @ 67.16053318996552 | |
| lua/Programming in Lua.pdf @ 69.74464832391206 | |
| ruby/Programming Ruby.pdf @ 70.83812526478746 | |
| erlang/Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World.pdf @ 71.79751534224798 | |
| haskell/LYAH.pdf @ 73.348808098198 | |
| python/Learn Python The Hard Way.pdf @ 90.91012574350434 |
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