X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=9ca99f7664d9adb59dbc714f8fd1af0dfc4cf74d;hp=7ba0f05e0b135c4203848cfb5ba143458d9360d4;hb=394123ab52327e184132525b8d13cc083c93fb9f;hpb=34eaf4e6c9dea6e465993683fef78d295c95d6bd diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 7ba0f05e..9ca99f76 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ OCaml, developed by the INRIA academic group in France. * Those of your 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 OCaml, and there are various important things one can do in -each of Haskell and Ocaml that one can't (or can't as easily) do in the +differs from Caml, and there are various important things one can do in +each of Haskell and Caml that one can't (or can't as easily) do in the other. But these languages also have a lot in common, and if you're familiar with one of them, it's not difficult to move between it and the other. @@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ 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.) + * *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 @@ -161,10 +165,7 @@ this time in ML. The dialect of ML used is SML, not OCaml, but there are only superficial syntactic differences between these languages. - -## Schedule of Topics ## - -To be added. +##[[Schedule of Topics]]## ----