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The Catechumenate: Ml Answers the 101 Most-Asked Questions
Published in Paperback by Resource Publications (June, 2000)
Author: Paul Turner
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Super!
I am on an RCIA team and am learning about the RCIA as I go along. This answered so many questions that no one else has been able to answer for me. I didn't get answers like this from my pastor or from my DRE or from the Beginnings and Beyond (religious formation by osmosis) weekend.

Great book.

Concurrent Programming in ML
Published in Hardcover by Cambridge University Press (13 August, 1999)
Author: John H. Reppy
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Buy this book!
This is a book on Concurrent ML by the man who invented it. With so little CML information available on the web, this book has been one of the best investments I've made in years. Reppy starts off with a review of concurrency theory and then illustrates programming in CML through big, real-world examples. Throughout the book, he explains the motivation behind his design decisions. You end up with a clear picture of concurrent programming in a functional language -- concurrent programming in a REAL language like ML ...

The Definition of Standard Ml
Published in Hardcover by MIT Press (March, 1990)
Authors: Robin Milner, Mads Tofte, and Robert Harper
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BECOME the language!
To explain it in the words of the authors: "The keystone of the method [used to define Standard ML in this book], then, is a certain kind of assertion that takes the form B |- P => M and may be pronounced: 'Against the background B, the phrase P evaluates to the meaning M.' The formal purpose of this Definition is no more, and no less, than to decree exactly which assertions of this form are true."

Standard ML is a very powerful language because of the abilities it grants and the restrictions it enforces. While reading this book will not teach you SML, it will help reinforce its subtle elegance. If you have developed an infatuation with this language, you will not be able to resist the only book that truly contains it.

While not necessary to enjoy this volume, a prerequisite to have any understanding of its contents is some sort of background in type theory and mathematical logic that a course like this one taught by Harper... can only begin to provide.

And remember, ML loves you!

Elementary Standard ML
Published in Paperback by Springer Verlag (December, 1995)
Author: Greg Michaelson
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Great Introduction to SML
I began studying computer science at The University of Copenhagen this summer (1998). This book was the first one we had to read, since Standard ML was the first language we had to learn, and I can indeed recommend this book to anyone new to Standard ML. It has many examples giving the reader a very good understanding to the subjects, and is written in a rather simple language (I am from Denmark, so anyone with English as their primary language will not encounter any problems reading this book :-). It starts from the very basics of programming in general, and continues through many subjects such as types, lists, functions, Input/Output, text and loops ending up giving the reader a very useful foundation of Standard ML programming. So if you are entirely new to Standard ML and want to learn it, this book will be a great help to you. Sincerely, Kasper Christensen

Memoirs of Pancho Villa
Published in Textbook Binding by Univ of Texas Press (January, 2000)
Author: Guzman Ml
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A Glimpse of the "Real" Pancho Villa
Mr. Guzman assembled documents from Villa's secretaries and constructed this memoir of the man post-mortem. Consequently, it is not blessed with numerous footnotes and other things beloved by historians. Mr. Guzman, a novelist of much fame in Mexico, also states that he has "filled-in-the-blanks" where documentation was not available to support his "history". In spite of these drawbacks, this appears to be a very accurate portayal of the events of the Mexican Revolution in which Villa played such a great part. The accounts of the battles of the Division of the North can be checked against other Spanish-language biographies of the era, and compare favorably with the recollections of other participants. Unfortunately, the memoir covers only the years up to 1915, leaving Villa's last 8 years of life unaccounted for. Even so, this book is a valuable source for the researcher interested in the career of the Division of the North, and in the political squabbles of Villa and Carranza.

Ml Primer
Published in Paperback by Prentice Hall (February, 1992)
Author: Ryan Stansifer
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Excellent tutorial to the ML; great for beginners!

This primer is a fun and gentle read. An excellent tutorial for ML beginners. Highly recommended to people who are interested in learning more about the ML language and basic concepts in functional programming.

The author has a clear grasp and good understanding of his intended audience. His prose style is highly engaging.

I simply couldn't put the book down until I finished reading it. Yes, it's that fun! One of the best introductory programming language books around, on par with the "Little Lisper"!! It sure would make you want to learn more about functional programming in general.

This is a great textbook for undergrad computer science introductory programming courses. I know most students would appreciate it if there are more introductory books like this in computer science.

Lee

Elements of Ml Programming
Published in Paperback by Prentice Hall (June, 1994)
Author: Jeffrey D. Ullman
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A decent overview of ML
While I find functional programming, and ML/SML in particular to be most annoying, this particular book is helpful in illuminating some key concepts of the paradigm. However, there are certainly sections where complex concepts are either glossed over, or explained in a very confusing manner (take Section 5.3.1, for example, which attempts, in a somewhat confusing manner, the limitations of polymorphic functionality in ML and it's relationship to types. A dense topic to be sure, but also poorly explained.) Additionally, there are some technical errors to be found in the book (eg: things that 'dont work' which really do, incorrect error messages, etc), which I mostly attribute to SML having been updated since the author published the book (not really his fault).

On the whole, ok to learn from, but can be overly verbose in some areas (eg: the belabored explination of all the error messages) , yet unclear in others... (eg: the density of several sections).

Also, as a parting note, there is not too much assumed about the reader, however, it helps to have a broad general computer science knowledge (as well as basic math, eg: calculus) unless you pickup new side-concepts very quickly. For example, in one example, the author uses the trapezoidal approixmation as an illustration of higher order functions. This is well and good, assuming you know calculus. Of course, if your reading this book, this is likely the case anyways.

Well written and enjoyable.
Although this is an introductory book, I also recommend it to advanced programmers. Concise and well written, it is a joy to read. Programmers who have little knowledge of modern functional languages will benefit immensely from this book. It is a great recreational read.

Introduction to Programming Using Sml
Published in Paperback by Pearson Addison Wesley (21 July, 1999)
Authors: Michael R. Hansen and Hans Rischel
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For the campus bookstore only
This book is not very good as a general introduction to programming. This book wants to give you a tool which you can use to solve purely technical tasks. Further, it wants to give you a programming style before introducing any basic concepts about the programming language. Finally, SML is a bad choise if you are a complete newbie, as the SML lives in a very small world. There are 100s of books on other languages, but so far we only have 3 (three) books on SML. Because SML is a technical book for the university. However, I doubt anyone would buy this book if he or she was not a student. Besides, there are many errors in this book ... If you want an introduction to genuine programming, i suggest you read Teach Yourself C by Herbert Schildt.

Good introduction to functional programming
The book gives very good introduction to sml and functional programming. It is very easy to read (actually the first programming book I ever read), and it is very thorough. Beside teaching you sml the book gives examples of how to design, implement and write technical documentation for different problems.

The examples is carefully choosen to illustrate the power of sml.

All around a good book. Maybe it lacks a little more thorough explanation about higher order functions. But surely the best introductionary book about sml, I have ever read.

Gives a good foundation of functional programming
This book gives you a good foundation of functional programming, with many threads into more advanced topics.
The book also contains four chapters on problem solving, they will give you many ideas for practical use of the methods described.
The exampels contain insight in algoritms and datastructurs, and the use of ML types is presented with full understanding of the problems.
The book has a very compact structur, but gives good explanations on topics like recursive- and higher-order functions, datatypes and records.

ML for the Working Programmer
Published in Paperback by Cambridge University Press (28 June, 1996)
Author: Lawrence C. Paulson
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a good book, but it wasn't compelling for me
I have no doubt this is a well-written book (I read it in its entirety). Unfortunately, the examples weren't compelling to me at all. While the lambda calculus interpreter was interesting, the time spent on the theorem prover was not very interesting (I wonder if it was added as an homage to ML's legacy??).

Overall, I suppose this book is a little dated.

Good introductory book with some advanced chapters
If you want to know something about ML, but learn it through good examples and interesting problems. This is the book! Also has some neat chapters on automated theorem proving, logic and interpreters.

Compiling with Continuations
Published in Hardcover by Cambridge University Press (29 November, 1991)
Author: Andrew W. Appel
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Surprisingly readable, given the subject matter.
This is a very nice little book, and I found it to be surprisingly readable. The book is nicely written. Standard ML is used to illustrate the technique of compiling a functional language using continuations as the primary intermediate representation. Lack of familiarity with ML is not particularly burdensome. I would like to have seen more discussion of other languages, though (Scheme?).

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