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From: Wojtek Narczynski <wojtek@power.com.pl>
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Subject: Re: Formal and informal type systems?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:30:55 +0200
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:47:40 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I have no idea what semantics you intend this new
> syntax to represent. I don't know ML, so I can't guess. Please treat
> this as a chance to entice me to learn more about ML.

Free ML book:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rwh/introsml/

The book does not start from "HelloWorld.ml". Instead it starts from a
regular expressions package that is supposed to impress the reader. It did
impress me.

Functional languages, for procedural programmers, are ...intelectually
refreshing.


Regards,
Wojtek