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-Many of these links are to Wikipedia. You can learn a lot from such articles,
-so long as you remember they may sometimes mislead or make mistakes. However, I
-hope at this point in your education you'll have learned to be a guarded reader
-even of authoritative treatises by eminent authors. So you shouldn't need any
-Wikipedia-specific warnings.
-
-For most readers, many bits of reading we point you to will be hairy in one way
-or another. It may be aimed at audiences with more programming experience; it
-may be aimed at audiences with specific logical background you don't yet have;
-it may be aimed at audiences familiar with technical areas in linguistics you're
-first encountering. Or perhaps several of these at once. We hope you will
-already have mastered the skill of leveraged reading: getting what you can out
-of an article you don't fully understand, so that you can discuss it with the rest of
-the group and hopefully get to a point where you can read it again and
-get more out of. (Rinse and repeat.)
-
-## Functions ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Higher-order function]]
-*      [[!wikipedia First-class function]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Currying]]
-
-## Functional vs imperative programming ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Declarative programming]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Functional programming]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Purely functional]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Referential transparency (computer science)]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Imperative programming]]
-
-## General issues about variables and scope in programming languages ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Variable (programming) desc="Variables"]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Free variables and bound variables]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Variable shadowing]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Name binding]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Name resolution]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Parameter (computer science) desc="Function parameters"]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Scope (programming) desc="Variable scope"]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Closure (computer science) desc="Closures"]]
-
-##[[Learning Scheme]]##
-
-*      [Try Scheme in your web browser](http://tryscheme.sourceforge.net/)
-
-## Untyped lambda calculus and combinatory logic ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Lambda calculus]]
-<!-- Haskell Curry had ideas that he felt were validated upon reading a 1924 paper by M. Schönfinkel "Uber die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik" which used combinators in a similar way to his own ideas. Haskell then wrote "An analysis of logical substitution" which appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics in 1929. -->
-*      [[!wikipedia Moses Schönfinkel]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Haskell Curry]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Alonzo Church]]<p>
-*      [[!wikipedia Church encoding]]
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Combinatory logic]]
-*      [Combinatory logic](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-combinatory/) at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
-*      [[!wikipedia SKI combinatory calculus]]
-*      [[!wikipedia B,C,K,W system]]
-*      Jeroen Fokker, "The Systematic Construction of a One-combinator Basis for Lambda-Terms" <cite>Formal Aspects of Computing</cite> 4 (1992), pp. 776-780.
-       <http://people.cs.uu.nl/jeroen/article/combinat/combinat.ps>
-*      [Chris Barker's Iota and Jot](http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Iota/)<p>
-
-*      [To Dissect a Mockingbird](http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/index.htm)
-*      [Combinator Birds](http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/cus/combinator/birds.html)
-*   [Les deux combinateurs et la totalite](http://www.paulbraffort.net/j_et_i/j_et_i.html) by Paul Braffort.
-
-## Evaluation Order ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Evaluation strategy]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Eager evaluation]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Lazy evaluation]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Strict programming language]]
-
-## Confluence, Normalization, Undecidability ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Church-Rosser theorem]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Normalization property]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Turing completeness]]<p>
-*      [Scooping the Loop Snooper](http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/CompTheory/scooping.pdf), a proof of the undecidability of the halting problem in the style of Dr Seuss by Geoffrey K. Pullum
-
-
-## Recursion and the Y Combinator ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Recursion (computer science) desc="Recursion"]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Y combinator]]
-*      [Chapter 9 from The Little Schemer](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.ps) on the Y Combinator "...and Again, and Again, and Again..."
-*      [The Y combinator](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2700.html)
-*      [The Why of Y](http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/WhyOfY.pdf)
-*      [The Y Combinator (Slight Return), or: How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html)
-*      [Y Combinator for Dysfunctional Non-Schemers](http://rayfd.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/y-combinator-for-dysfunctional-non-schemers/)
-*      [The Y Combinator](http://www.ece.uc.edu/~franco/C511/html/Scheme/ycomb.html)
-*      [The Y Combinator](http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/cs245/ycomb_jim.html) derives the applicative-order Y-combinator from scratch, in Scheme. This derivation is similar in flavor to the derivation found in The Little Schemer, but uses a slightly different starting approach...
-*   [The church of the least fixed point, by Sans Pareil](http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4t2v573m58g2755/)
-
-
-## Types ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Tagged union]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Algebraic data type]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Recursive data type]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Pattern matching]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Unit type]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Bottom type]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Typed lambda calculus]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Simply typed lambda calculus]]
-*      [Type Theory](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/type-theory/) at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
-*      [Church's Type Theory](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/type-theory-church/) at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
-*      [[!wikipedia Type polymorphism]]
-*      [[!wikipedia System F]]
-
-
-##[[Learning OCaml]]##
-
-
-## Side-effects / mutation ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Side effect (computer science) desc="Side effects"]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Reference (computer science) desc="References"]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Pointer (computing) desc="Pointers"]]
-*      [Pointers in OCaml](http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/pointers.html)
-
-## Monads ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Monad (functional programming) desc="Monads in Functional Programming"]]
-*      [A Gentle Intro to Haskell: About Monads](http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/monads.html)
-*      [Understanding Haskell Monads](http://ertes.de/articles/monads.html)
-*      [The State Monad: a tutorial for the confused?](http://coder.bsimmons.name/blog/2009/10/the-state-monad-a-tutorial-for-the-confused/)
-*      [Beyond Monads](http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/02/beyond-monads.html)
-*      [Simple Explanation of a Monad](http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/405/simple-explanation-of-a-monad)
-*      [What is a Monad?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44965/what-is-a-monad)
-*      [Can Anyone Explain Monads?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2366/can-anyone-explain-monads)
-*      [Monad in Plain English...](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2704652/monad-in-plain-english-for-the-oop-programmer-with-no-fp-background)
-*      [Monad in non-programming terms](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3261729/monad-in-non-programming-terms)
-*      [Real World Haskell: chapter on Monads](http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/monads.html)
-*      [Learn You a Haskell for Great Good: chapter on Functors, Applicative Functors and Monoids](http://www.learnyouahaskell.com/functors-applicative-functors-and-monoids)
-*      Monads are Elephants:
-[Part 1](http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2007/09/monads-are-elephants-part-1.html)
-[Part 2](http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2007/10/monads-are-elephants-part-2.html)
-[Part 3](http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2007/10/monads-are-elephants-part-3.html)
-[Part 4](http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2007/11/monads-are-elephants-part-4.html)
-*      [Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad (67 minute video)](http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Brian-Beckman-Dont-fear-the-Monads/)
-*      [A monad non-tutorial...or why you shouldn't ask what a monad is](http://strongtyped.blogspot.com/2010/01/monad-non-tutorial.html)
-*      [The Mother of all Monads](http://blog.sigfpe.com/2008/12/mother-of-all-monads.html)
-*      [You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)](http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html)
-*      [Monads! (and Why Monad Tutorials Are All Awful)](http://ahamsandwich.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/monads-and-why-monad-tutorials-are-all-awful/)
-*      [Of monads and spacesuits (archived)](http://www.iterasi.net/openviewer.aspx?sqrlitid=ixx7fcluvek_9lfolsxr_g)
-*      [Haskell wikibook: Understanding monads](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Understanding_monads)
-*      Haskell state monads: [part 1](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/1765.html) [part 2](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/1901.html)
-*      [How not to explain Haskell monads](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/1205.html)
-*      Yet Another Monad Tutorial: [part 1](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/3917.html) [part 2](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/4305.html)
-       [part 3](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/4586.html) [part 4](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/4647.html)
-*      [Research Papers/Monads and Arrows](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers/Monads_and_arrows)
-*      [Philip Wadler. Monads for Functional Programming](http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/baastad.pdf):
-in M. Broy, editor, *Marktoberdorf Summer School on Program Design Calculi*, Springer Verlag, NATO ASI Series F: Computer and systems sciences, Volume 118, August 1992. Also in J. Jeuring and E. Meijer, editors, *Advanced Functional Programming*, Springer Verlag, LNCS 925, 1995. Some errata fixed August 2001.
-       The use of monads to structure functional programs is described. Monads provide a convenient framework for simulating effects found in other languages, such as global state, exception handling, output, or non-determinism. Three case studies are looked at in detail: how monads ease the modification of a simple evaluator; how monads act as the basis of a datatype of arrays subject to in-place update; and how monads can be used to build parsers.
-*      [Philip Wadler. The essence of functional programming](http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/essence/essence.ps):
-invited talk, *19'th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages*, ACM Press, Albuquerque, January 1992.
-       This paper explores the use monads to structure functional programs. No prior knowledge of monads or category theory is required.
-       Monads increase the ease with which programs may be modified. They can mimic the effect of impure features such as exceptions, state, and continuations; and also provide effects not easily achieved with such features. The types of a program reflect which effects occur.
-       The first section is an extended example of the use of monads. A simple interpreter is modified to support various extra features: error messages, state, output, and non-deterministic choice. The second section describes the relation between monads and continuation-passing style. The third section sketches how monads are used in a compiler for Haskell that is written in Haskell.
-
-## Monads in Category Theory ##
-
-*      [Category Theory at SEP](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/)
-*      [[!wikipedia Category theory]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Category (mathematics) desc="Category"]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Morphism]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Functor]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Natural transformation]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Monad (category theory) desc="Monads in category theory"]]
-*      [Haskell/Category Theory](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory)
-*      [Category Theory & Functional Programming](http://blog.mestan.fr/2009/01/09/category-theory-functional-programming/)
-*      [Learning Haskell through Category Theory, and Adventuring in Category Land](http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/learning-haskell-through-category-theory-and-adventuring-in-category-land-like-flatterland-only-about-categories/)
-*      [Resources for learning practical category theory](http://mathoverflow.net/questions/903/resources-for-learning-practical-category-theory)
-*      [A Partial Ordering of some Category Theory applied to Haskell](http://blog.sigfpe.com/2010/03/partial-ordering-of-some-category.html)
-
-
-## The Curry-Howard Correspondence ##
-*      The [[!wikipedia Curry-Howard isomorphism]]
-*      [The Curry-Howard correspondence in Haskell](http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/formal/curryhoward/)
-*      [The Curry-Howard Isomorphism](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/The_Curry-Howard_isomorphism) at Haskell wiki<p>
-
-
-## Continuations ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Continuation]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Continuation-passing style]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Call-with-current-continuation]]
-*      [Intro to call/cc](http://community.schemewiki.org/?call-with-current-continuation) at SchemeWiki
-*      [Call With Current Continuation](http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?CallWithCurrentContinuation)
-*      [Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated](http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~duchier/python/continuations.html)
-*      [Continuation kata](http://programming-musings.org/2006/02/12/continuation-kata/)
-*      [Understanding continuations](http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2004/Jul/11/continuations) [Commentary](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/86)
-*      [Continuations In Scheme](http://tech.phillipwright.com/2010/05/23/continuations-in-scheme/)
-*      [Understanding Scheme Continuations](http://sanjaypande.blogspot.com/2004/06/understanding-scheme-continuations.html). This is tagged "Part I" but I think there's no further parts.
-*      [Continuations for Curmudgeons](http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/04/13/Continuations-for-Curmudgeons) [Commentary](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/643)
-*      [Haskell wiki on Continuations](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Continuation)<p>
-*      [[!wikipedia Delimited continuation]]
-*      [Composable Continuations Tutorial](http://community.schemewiki.org/?composable-continuations-tutorial) at SchemeWiki
-*      [Post by Ken](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1197#comment-12927) on Lambda the Ultimate explaining difference between undelimited and delimited continuations
-*      [shift, reset and streams](http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2005/04/shift-reset-and-streams.html)
-*      [guile and delimited continuations](http://www.wingolog.org/archives/2010/02/26/guile-and-delimited-continuations)
-*      [Delimited continuations in Scala](http://blog.richdougherty.com/2009/02/delimited-continuations-in-scala_24.html)
-*      [Delimited Continuations Explained (in Scala)](http://dcsobral.blogspot.com/2009/07/delimited-continuations-explained-in.html)
-*      [Partial Continuations](http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/articles/scheme/partial-continuations.html)
-*      Delimited Continuations in MzScheme:
-[Part 1](http://schemekeys.blogspot.com/2006/11/prompts-their-interaction-with-dynamic.html)
-[Part 2](http://schemekeys.blogspot.com/2006/12/delimited-continuations-in-mzscheme.html)
-[Part 3](http://schemekeys.blogspot.com/2007/01/going-further-with-primitives.html)
-[Part 4](http://schemekeys.blogspot.com/2007/01/odd-and-ends.html)<p>
-*      [Online Bibliography of Scheme Research: Continuations and Continuation Passing Style](http://library.readscheme.org/page6.html)
-*      [Delimited continuations in natural language semantics](http://okmij.org/ftp/gengo/)
-
-
-## Linear Logic ##
-
-*      [[!wikipedia Linear logic]]
-
-