[racket] Offtopic: Learning SML

From: Sam Phillips (samdphillips at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 20 23:10:49 EDT 2011

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:36, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Over the years I've noticed on-list that comments are made about OCaml
> and Haskell and abstract data types.
>
> It seems like it would be fun to learn more about this stuff; and I
> guessed that learning SML would be a nice place to start because it is
> stable and seemed to be used by educators a lot.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Are _ML for the Working Programmer_ and _Elements of ML Programming,
> ML97_  a good place to start?

I'm surprised no one has mentioned _The Little MLer_ yet.

http://www.amazon.com/Little-MLer-Matthias-Felleisen/dp/026256114X

Cheers,
Sam



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