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"The book is an excellent introduction to ML, but even better, it provides a good overview of functional programming." Jeffrey Putnam, Computing Review
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The new edition of this successful and established textbook retains its two original intentions of explaining how to program in the ML language, and teaching the fundamentals of functional programming. The major change is the early and prominent coverage of modules, which are extensively used throughout. In addition, the first chapter has been totally rewritten to make the book more accessible to those without experience of programming languages. The main features of new Standard Library for the revised version of ML are described and many new examples are given, while references have also been updated. Dr Paulson has extensive practical experience of ML and has stressed its use as a tool for software engineering; the book contains many useful pieces of code, which are freely available (via the Internet) from the author. He shows how to use lists, trees, higher-order functions and infinite data structures. Many illustrative and practical examples are included.. Efficient functional implementations of arrays, queues, priority queues, etc. are described. Larger examples include a general top-down parser, a lambda-calculus reducer and a theorem prover. The combination of careful explanation and practical advice will ensure that this textbook continues to be the preferred text for many courses on ML.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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If you think you are a good programmer - read this!,
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This review is from: ML for the Working Programmer (Paperback)
This is a comprehensive book on functional programming (not on ML as the title might suggest). It will teach you all the essentials of functional programming in a very interesting and challenging way. This might be a bit hard if you have not done any programming before (even imperative) but if you consider yourself a good programmer you will enjoy this title a lot. The examples and excercises are not boring or typical in any sense and it keeps you learning from very begining til very end. I used this book for selfteaching and it worked cool for me. It's not obscure or nonexplanatory in anyway. It's particularly rewarding to do the excercises. This are not the excercises for your fingers and keyboard (as many boring excercises in most of the programming handbooks) but these are rather for your brain. This way you improve not only your ML but your programming abilities in general as well.Your skills and understanding of programming langugaes can very probably improve a lot after reading this one. It's usefful even if you get a job in C++ then :) It's probably the only programming language textbook I really enjoyed so far.
4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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SICP for ML,
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This is a staggering tour de force of a book. It is ML's equivalent of SICP (and if you don't know what that is - well shame on you!). The book storms though the basics and goes on to lambda calculus interpreters and theorem provers (be cool - Paulson will carry you there). This is a faster paced intro than Ulman's ML book and is less funny or diverse than SICP - which of course is about FP in scheme rather than fop in ML. Read both SCIP and this book. Then read Bird on FP in Haskell. Then you might begin to know something. Then get a job in C++ :(
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Superb Textbook,
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This review is from: ML for the Working Programmer (Paperback)
As a student of Dr. Paulson, this book was an invaluable guide during his course on functional programming. However, I would recommend this book even as a stand-alone volume as Dr. Paulson covers this topic in a manner that makes the subject matter accessible even to newcomers to functional programming like myself. If only more textbooks were written like this one!
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