From: Jim Pryor Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:00:15 +0000 (-0400) Subject: comment on differences btw Hankin / Hindley&Selden X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=22724972289e3ad77f7b5e6142a6a4424cbdbc38 comment on differences btw Hankin / Hindley&Selden Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 34aa2442..3175dcb8 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -144,7 +144,11 @@ Hankin, currently $17 on * (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.) +an Introduction*, by J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin. If you choose to read +both the Hankin book and this book, you'll notice the authors made some different +terminological/notational choices. At first, this makes comprehension slightly slower, +but in the long run it's helpful because it makes the arbitrariness of those choices more salient.) + * *The Little Schemer, Fourth Edition*, by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, currently $23 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262560992).