From 2b784c8305ed3f53e1f2346281fa2f229881626c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim <jim.pryor@nyu.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 16:01:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] remove some work-in-progress

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 ## [[Jump to content (lecture notes and more)|content.mdwn]] ##
 
-<!--
-See [below](#installing) for how to get the programming languages running on your computer.
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-*	Links for help [[learning Scheme]]
-*	Links for help [[learning OCaml]]
-*	[[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]]
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-[[Lambda Evaluator]]: Usable in your browser. It can help you check whether your answer to some of the homework questions works correctly. There is also now a [library](/lambda_library) of lambda-calculus arithmetical and list operations, some relatively advanced.
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-*	We've added a [[Monad Library]] for OCaml.
-*	We've posted a [[State Monad Tutorial]].
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-##[[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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 ## Announcements ##
 
 *   This wiki will be undergoing lots of changes throughout the semester, and particularly in these first few days as we get it set up, migrate over some of the content from the previous time
@@ -194,14 +178,6 @@ strictly exclusive. The labels are better thought of as concerning different
 of the extent to which they emphasize, and are designed around those idioms. Languages like Python and JavaScript are sometimes themselves
 described as "more functional" than other languages, like C.
 
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-## What is Functional Programming? ##
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-Here's a [survey conducted at Microsoft](http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=141506) asking programmers what they understand "functional programming" to be. Don't take their responses to be authoritative... this is a just a "man in the street" (seat?) poll.
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-Read more about the [uptake of Haskell](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html) among programmers in the street.
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 In any case, here is some more context for the three languages we will be focusing on.
 
 *   **Scheme** is one of two or three major dialects of *Lisp*, which is a large family
@@ -248,14 +224,6 @@ other.
 <a name=installing></a>
 [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]]
 
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-[[Family tree of functional programming languages]]
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-[[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]]
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-Links to tutorials?
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 ## Recommended Books ##
 
@@ -300,8 +268,6 @@ but in the long run it's helpful because it makes the arbitrariness of those cho
 
 *   Another good book, covering some of the same ground as the Hankin, and the Hindley &amp; Seldin, but delving deeper into typed lambda calculi, is *Types and Programming Languages*, by Benjamin Pierce, currently $77 hardback / $68 kindle on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162091). This book has many examples in OCaml.
 
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