<div class="buying" style="padding:0.25em 0em"><h1 class="parseasinTitle " style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px">If you want to go hardcore, you could consider</h1> <h1 class="parseasinTitle " style="font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px">The Definition of Standard ML - Revised</h1> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Robin%20Milner&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank">Robin Milner</a> (Author), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Robert%20Harper&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank">Robert Harper</a> (Author), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_3?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=David%20MacQueen&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank">David MacQueen</a>(Author), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_4?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Mads%20Tofte&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank">Mads Tofte</a> (Author)</div> <div class="jumpBar" style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:2px"> </div>Nice book, a bit dense though.<div> </div><div>Stephan</div><div> Op donderdag 4 juli 2013 schreef Todd O'Bryan (<a href="mailto:toddobryan@gmail.com">toddobryan@gmail.com</a>) het volgende: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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. <a href="http://www.learnyouahaskell.com" target="_blank">http://www.learnyouahaskell.com</a> Todd On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Sean Kanaley <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'skanaley@gmail.com')">skanaley@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I can't speak to ML vs. Haskell starter-friendliness but I can provide a > link to a free online Haskell book: > > <a href="http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/" target="_blank">http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/</a> > > 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, >> > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </blockquote></div>