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@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ 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 Caml, and there are various important things one can do in
@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ 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. If you choose to read
+both the Hankin book and this book, you'll notice the authors made some different
+terminological/notational choices. At first, this makes comprehension slightly slower,
+but in the long run it's helpful because it makes the arbitrariness of those choices more salient.)
+
+
 *   *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
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 superficial syntactic differences between these languages.
 
 
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-## Schedule of Topics ##
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-To be added.
+##[[Schedule of Topics]]##
 
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