Here's one of the newer ones I mentioned, which I haven't read but seems well regarded: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/ http://cs.brown.ed

Here's one of the newer ones I mentioned, which I haven't read but seems well regarded: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/ http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/ EoPL took about as much work as a good college class, minus the sitting-in-lectures-and-tests part. Some parts aren't depended on later, like the OO chapter IIRC, so they're up to whether you're interested.