You might want to check out "Unix system programming with Standard ML" by Shipman. The first half of the book covers the basics of SML and the Posix & C interfa

You might want to check out "Unix system programming with Standard ML" by Shipman. The first half of the book covers the basics of SML and the Posix & C interfaces, and also discusses building a simple TCP client and server. The second half of the book is a larger project building a web server: http://www.mlton.org/References.attachments/Shipman02.pdf http://www.mlton.org/References.attachments/Shipman02.pdf