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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.
 
 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
 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


@@ -144,7 +144,11 @@ Hankin, currently $17 on
 
 *      (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:
 
 *      (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.)
+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).
 
 *   *The Little Schemer, Fourth Edition*, by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias
 Felleisen, currently $23 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262560992).


@@ -165,7 +169,7 @@ this time in ML. The dialect of ML used is SML, not OCaml, but there are only
 superficial syntactic differences between these languages.
 
 
 superficial syntactic differences between these languages.
 
 

-[[Schedule of Topics]]
+##[[Schedule of Topics]]##

 
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