[racket] Offtopic: Learning SML

Grant Rettke wrote:

> Are _ML for the Working Programmer_ and _Elements of ML Programming,
> ML97_  a good place to start?

I am a great fan of "Working Programmer", not of "Elements".

Quite apart from its clear and sensible treatment of SML, "Working 
Programmer" has many case studies that will be valuable to functional 
programmers, even if they never write an SML program. It's a nice 
addition to a compact bookshelf. --PR