X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=index.mdwn;h=34aa2442db6207f13585e8b89f430a95f2d2d12d;hb=f5c65211617c8e04e87d3009f220f6457a76e9ff;hp=7ba0f05e0b135c4203848cfb5ba143458d9360d4;hpb=34eaf4e6c9dea6e465993683fef78d295c95d6bd;p=lambda.git diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 7ba0f05e..34aa2442 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -125,11 +125,11 @@ family of programming languages. The other dialect is called "SML" and has several implementations. But Caml has only one active implementation, OCaml, developed by the INRIA academic group in France. -* Those of your with some programming background may have encountered a third +* Those of you with some programming background may have encountered a third prominent functional programming language, **Haskell**. This is also used a lot in the academic contexts we'll be working through. Its surface syntax -differs from OCaml, and there are various important things one can do in -each of Haskell and Ocaml that one can't (or can't as easily) do in the +differs from Caml, and there are various important things one can do in +each of Haskell and Caml that one can't (or can't as easily) do in the other. But these languages also have a lot in common, and if you're familiar with one of them, it's not difficult to move between it and the other. @@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ other. Hankin, currently $17 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Lambda-Calculi-Computer-Scientists/dp/0954300653). +* (Another good book covering the same ground as the Hankin book, but +more thoroughly, and in a more mathematical style, is *Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: +an Introduction*, by J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin.) + * *The Little Schemer, Fourth Edition*, by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, currently $23 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262560992). This is a classic text introducing the gentle art of programming, using the @@ -161,10 +165,7 @@ this time in ML. The dialect of ML used is SML, not OCaml, but there are only superficial syntactic differences between these languages. - -## Schedule of Topics ## - -To be added. +##[[Schedule of Topics]]## ----