X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=readings.mdwn;h=7810acd619f29c479946af504dd07ffcbe85be95;hp=d4ce173871a5ce637c6cdae2483c392ea217566e;hb=a4dfe1de1feca715d65c992ee99a1d062e769aaf;hpb=97de3fb83ea325ec9ad23de028633d8987cb5988 diff --git a/readings.mdwn b/readings.mdwn index d4ce1738..7810acd6 100644 --- a/readings.mdwn +++ b/readings.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +[[!toc levels=3]] + ## Links to tutorials and other resources on Scheme, OCaml, and Haskell ## * Help on [[Learning Scheme]] @@ -5,10 +7,265 @@ * Help on [[Learning Haskell]] - +* This site's [[explanation of the differences|rosetta1]] between these languages + + +## Other Offsite Reading ## + +* [[Famous Computer Scientists|people]] + + +## Old links ## + +*The links below are from the last time we taught the course; we should check them again...* -_offsite_reading.mdwn There's lots of links here already to tutorials and encyclopedia entries about many of the notions we'll be dealing with. ---> +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 Side effect (computer science) desc="Side effects"]] +* [[!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"]] + + +### Untyped lambda calculus and combinatory logic ### + +* [[Dana Scott's Turing centenary address on the lambda calculus|http://turing100.acm.org/lambda_calculus_timeline.pdf]] +* [[!wikipedia Lambda calculus]] + +* [[!wikipedia Moses Schönfinkel]] +* [[!wikipedia Haskell Curry]] +* [[!wikipedia Alonzo Church]]

+* [[!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" Formal Aspects of Computing 4 (1992), pp. 776-780. + +* [Chris Barker's Iota and Jot](http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Iota/)

+ +* [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]]

+* [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/) + +### Folds ### + +* [[!wikipedia Fold (higher-order function)]] + + +### Types ### + +* [[!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]] +

+* [[!wikipedia Tagged union]] +* [[!wikipedia Algebraic data type]] +* [[!wikipedia Recursive data type]] +* [[!wikipedia Pattern matching]] +* [[!wikipedia Unit type]] +* [[!wikipedia Bottom type]] + + + +### Monads ### +* [[!wikipedia Monad (functional programming) desc="Monads in Functional Programming"]] +* [Daniel Friedman. A Schemer's View of Monads](/schemersviewofmonads.ps): from but the link above is to a local copy. +* [A Gentle Intro to Haskell: About Monads](http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/monads.html) (link currently broken, check ) +* [All About Monads](http://haskell.org/all_about_monads/html/index.html) (also broken, here's an [archived version](http://web.archive.org/web/20071013115156/haskell.org/all_about_monads/html/index.html)) +* From HaskwellWiki: + [Monad tutorials timeline](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Monad_tutorials_timeline) + | [Monad laws](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Monad_Laws) + | [Monads as computation](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Monads_as_computation) + | [Monads as containers](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Monads_as_containers) + | [What a monad is not](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/What_a_Monad_is_not) +* [Haskell wikibook: Understanding monads](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Understanding_monads) +* [Haskell wikibook: Monad Transformers](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Monad_transformers) + +* [A State Monad Tutorial](http://strabismicgobbledygook.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/a-state-monad-tutorial/) +* [You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)](http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html) +* Yet Another Monad Tutorial: [part 1](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/3917.html) [part 2](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/4305.html) +* [Monads for the Working Haskell Programmer -- a short tutorial](http://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/haskell_and_monads.htm) +* [Introduction to Haskell: Monads](http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/08/02/introduction-to-haskell-pure-functions.html) +* [SPb Haskell User Group: Monad tutorial](http://spbhug.folding-maps.org/wiki/MonadsEn) +* [Understanding Haskell Monads](http://ertes.de/articles/monads.html) +* [A Monad Tutorial for OCaml](http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/a-monad-tutorial-for-ocaml/) +* [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) +* [Abstraction, intuition, and the "monad tutorial fallacy"](http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/) +* [How you should(n't) use Monad](http://noordering.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/how-you-shouldnt-use-monad/) +* [The Mother of all Monads](http://blog.sigfpe.com/2008/12/mother-of-all-monads.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) +* [How not to explain Haskell monads](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/1205.html) +* [The State Monad: a tutorial for the confused?](http://coder.bsimmons.name/blog/2009/10/the-state-monad-a-tutorial-for-the-confused/) +* Haskell state monads: [part 1](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/1765.html) [part 2](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/1901.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) +* [Eugenio Moggi, Notions of Computation and Monads](http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MoggiE/ftp/ic91.pdf): Information and Computation 93 (1) 1991. +* [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. + +* [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. + +* Ken Shan [Monads for natural language semantics](http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0205026v1) (2001) uses reader monad to implement intensionality. +* Ben-Avi and Winter [A modular approach to intensionality](http://parles.upf.es/glif/pub/sub11/individual/bena_wint.pdf) (2007) reinvents the technique. + +* Monsters and context-shifting, e.g. Gillies/von Fintel on "ifs" [not sure which paper] + + +### 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) + + +### Side-effects / mutation ### + +* [[!wikipedia Referential transparency (computer science)]] +* [[!wikipedia Side effect (computer science) desc="Side effects"]] +* [[!wikipedia Imperative programming]] +* [[!wikipedia Reference (computer science) desc="References"]] +* [[!wikipedia Pointer (computing) desc="Pointers"]] +* [Pointers in OCaml](http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/pointers.html) + + +### 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) +* [Haskell wikibook on Continuation Passing Style](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Continuation_passing_style)

+* [[!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)

+* [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/) + + +### The Curry-Howard Correspondence ### +* The [[!wikipedia Curry-Howard isomorphism]] +* [The Curry-Howard correspondence in Haskell](http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/formal/curryhoward/) +* [Haskell wikibook on the Curry-Howard Isomorphism](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/The_Curry-Howard_isomorphism) at Haskell wiki

+ + + +### Linear Logic ### + +* [[!wikipedia Linear logic]] + +