[racket] Offtopic: Favorite resources for mastering SML?

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On Jul 5, 2013, at 4:17 AM, natxo cabre wrote:

> 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 (Author), Robert Harper (Author), David MacQueen(Author), Mads Tofte (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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