http://mvanier.livejournal.com/998.html
http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/
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I haven't read pyHardWay, but I think it's vaguely in the lineaage of why's:
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/188-agile/ruby/whys...
and for FP:
http://learnyouahaskell.com/
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content
http://www.lisperati.com/clojure-spels/casting.html
Also, SICP, little schemer. Others?