X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=c10667bb38642d4e4b8bce652670f58ace258c16;hp=eb61fb700f708862c5cfbd1df5eee2c0c341ce4f;hb=7e0ff6635f98a9139894d40e79e01e05e53abb87;hpb=c5c1236e4deb5ef61e2f1624d82e59a881604484 diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index eb61fb70..c10667bb 100644 --- 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 @@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ 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 +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 welcome @@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ other. [[Using the programming languages]] - +[[Family tree of functional programming languages]] + ## Recommended Books ## * *An Introduction to Lambda Calculi for Computer Scientists*, by Chris @@ -171,11 +172,6 @@ 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. -# Other resources # - -* [Barker's Lambda Tutorial](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/Lambda): tutorial with embedded Javascript code that enables a user to type a lambda form into a web browser page and click to execute (reduce) it. -* [Penn Lambda Calculator](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/lambda/): requires installing Java, but provides a number of tools for evaluating lambda expressions and other linguistic forms. - ##[[Schedule of Topics]]## ##[[Lecture Notes]]##