logic requirement

[lambda.git] / index.mdwn

diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn
index 7953845..a15468c 100644 (file)
--- a/index.mdwn
+++ b/index.mdwn
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Other keywords:
        the Curry-Howard isomorphism(s)
        monads in category theory and computation
 -->
-       
+
 ## Who Can Participate? ##
 
 The course will not presume previous experience with programming.  We
@@ -90,13 +90,19 @@ languages, and we will encourage experimentation with running,
 modifying, and writing computer programs.
 
 The course will not presume lots of mathematical or logical background, either.
-However, it will demand a certain amount of comfort working with such material; as a result, 
+However, it will demand a certain amount of comfort working with such material; as a result,
 it will not be especially well-suited to be a first graduate-level course
 in formal semantics or philosophy of language. If you have concerns about your
 background, come discuss them with us.
 
-It hasn't yet been decided whether this course counts for satisfying the logic requirement for 
-Philosophy PhD students.
+This class will count as satisfying the logic requirement for Philosophy
+PhD students; however if this would be your first or only serious
+engagement with graduate-level formal work you should consider
+carefully, and must discuss with us, (1) whether you'll be adequately
+prepared for this course, and (2) whether you'd be better served by
+taking a logic course (at a neighboring department, or at NYU next year)
+with a more canonical syllabus.
+
 
 Faculty and students from outside of NYU Linguistics and Philosophy are welcome
 to audit, to the extent that this coheres well with the needs of our local
@@ -138,7 +144,8 @@ other.
 
 [[Using the programming languages]]
 
-       
+[[Family tree of functional programming languages]]
+
 ## Recommended Books ##
 
 *      *An Introduction to Lambda Calculi for Computer Scientists*, by Chris
@@ -169,7 +176,8 @@ on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Seasoned-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02625610
 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Little-MLer-Matthias-Felleisen/dp/026256114X).
 This covers some of the same introductory ground as The Little Schemer, but
 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. [Here's a translation
+manual between them](http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html).
 
 ##[[Schedule of Topics]]##