[racket] Offtopic: Favorite resources for mastering SML?

I'm also interested in knowing your recommendation about which language is
better for starters: SML or Haskell? and why?


2013/7/4 Stephan Houben <stephanh42 at gmail.com>

> If you want to go hardcore, you could consider The Definition of Standard
> ML - Revised Robin Milner<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Robin%20Milner&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank>
>  (Author), Robert Harper<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Robert%20Harper&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank>
>  (Author), David MacQueen<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_3?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=David%20MacQueen&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank>
> (Author), Mads Tofte<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_4?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Mads%20Tofte&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank>
>  (Author)
>
> Nice book, a bit dense though.
>
> Stephan
>
> Op donderdag 4 juli 2013 schreef Todd O'Bryan (toddobryan at gmail.com) het
> volgende:
>
> I have to put in a plug for Learn You a Haskell for Great Good. It's
>> quite entertaining and several of my high school students have managed
>> to work their way through most of it.
>>
>> http://www.learnyouahaskell.com
>>
>> Todd
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Sean Kanaley <skanaley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I can't speak to ML vs. Haskell starter-friendliness but I can provide a
>> > link to a free online Haskell book:
>> >
>> > http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
>> >
>> > It's the Haskell equivalent of "Practical Common Lisp".
>> >
>> > If you end up liking Haskell, the book Haskell School of Expression is
>> very
>> > good.  It takes you through the construction of DSLs for functional
>> reactive
>> > programming (FRP), an imperative language to control robots (simulated
>> on
>> > screen with simple graphics), and one to describe music in the abstract
>> and
>> > then convert it to a MIDI file.  It's more heavily math based, often
>> asking
>> > for proofs as exercises, but if that's not what you like it's not really
>> > necessary to do them anyway.
>> >
>> > Note that I'm not attempting to persuade you from ML and the
>> recommendations
>> > already given, merely sharing what I personally know better...though I
>> will
>> > say that the Haskell type system to include its classes, families,
>> > functional dependencies, transformers, GADTs, etc. is probably the best
>> one
>> > in existence, or at least in common use...
>> >
>> >
>> > On 07/04/2013 10:36 AM, Grant Rettke wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> One of my current projects is to master as functional and statically
>> >> typed programming language. Having discussed and debated it years ago
>> >> (partially on list here, too) the conclusion was reached that SML
>> >> would be a nicer place to start than Haskell or Clean. Fifteen years
>> >> after its release, there seems to be a lot of knowledge but not a ton
>> >> of resources exactly. There are a lot of dead links and books out of
>> >> print (working off the SML/NJ resource list). I'm wondering of ACM's
>> >> digital library is a good place to start.
>> >>
>> >> Last week I worked through _ML for the Working Programmers_ which was
>> >> great but didn't get into the details in a way that I would have
>> >> expected (went from 10mph to 100mph instead). Up next is _The Little
>> >> MLer_ and Harpers _Programming in Standard ML_.
>> >>
>> >> This list's members have a breadth and depth far beyond most, so I'm
>> >> wondering if I could get your help here and learn about your favorite
>> >> learning SML resources.
>> >>
>> >> Best wishes,
>> >>
>> >
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