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@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Other keywords:
 	the Curry-Howard isomorphism(s)
 	monads in category theory and computation
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+
 ## Who Can Participate? ##
 
 The course will not presume previous experience with programming.  We
@@ -90,15 +90,15 @@ 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.
-And it wouldn't be especially well-suited to be a first graduate-level course
+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 
+It hasn't yet been decided whether this course counts for satisfying the logic requirement for
 Philosophy PhD students.
 
-Faculty and students from outside of NYU Linguistics and Philosophy are wlecome
+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
 students.
 
@@ -135,8 +135,12 @@ familiar with one of them, it's not difficult to move between it and the
 other.
 
 [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]]
-	
-## Recommended Readings ##
+
+[[Using the programming languages]]
+
+[[Family tree of functional programming languages]]
+
+## Recommended Books ##
 
 *	*An Introduction to Lambda Calculi for Computer Scientists*, by Chris
 Hankin, currently $17 on
@@ -166,11 +170,18 @@ 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]]##
 
+##[[Lecture Notes]]##
+
+##[[Offsite Reading]]##
+
+There's lots of links here already to tutorials and encyclopedia entries about many of the notions we'll be dealing with.
+
+
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