[MLton] SML Reference

Lukasz S Ziarek lziarek@cs.purdue.edu
Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:53:43 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:

> Quoting Matthew Fluet (fluet@cs.cornell.edu):
>
> >  ML for the Working Programmer  by Lawrence C. Paulson
>
> If you have been exposed to imperative programming, but not
> functional programming, this is the book to read in my opinion.
> L.C. Paulson has done a good job with this book I think.

This is the main ML book I used to learn ML. Also you may want to take a
look at Elements of ML Programming by Jeffery D. Ullman. It does a good
job of explaining ML.

Luke

>
> >   Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki
> > shows how to put functional programming to good use.  Compare Okasaki's
> > red-black tree implementation to CLR's.
>
> I love this book. Theres much more than just RBTrees in it and
> everything is implemented in SML.
>
> --
> j.
>
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