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ML for the Working Programmer
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In teaching the methods of functional programming--in particular, how to program in Standard ML, a functional language recently developed at Edinburgh University, the author shows how to use such concepts as lists, trees, higher-order functions and infinite data structures.
Paperback, Second Edition, 500 pages
Published
June 28th 1996
by Cambridge University Press
(first published July 26th 1991)
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Not really sure who "working programmer" refers to in the book. It delves too quickly into formal proofs and implementation of a lambda calculus-based language. It's a disappointment to think that this might influence one's perception of what is possible with Standard ML... namely everything/anything.
This is the book I learned to program from, more or less.
I can't say that what I was doing at the time was much in the way of programming - it was mostly copying stuff out of a text editor into the Moscow ML REPL (the ML REPLs are amazing. Nothing else comes close to being as good, except maybe Jupyter notebooks which are a very different ball game)
However I don't really write any ML variants any more, and even if I did this probably isn't the book I would use now that I already know how. If you ...more
I can't say that what I was doing at the time was much in the way of programming - it was mostly copying stuff out of a text editor into the Moscow ML REPL (the ML REPLs are amazing. Nothing else comes close to being as good, except maybe Jupyter notebooks which are a very different ball game)
However I don't really write any ML variants any more, and even if I did this probably isn't the book I would use now that I already know how. If you ...more
I really disliked this book. It was an obtuse introduction to functional programming, and there's much better out there. And if you're going to insist on using a language which is really just a wrapper for an elaborate proof planner, then at least go with Haskell.
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