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Types and Programming Languages by Pierce is an amazing book. I'm still far from finishing it, but if anyone is looking for a good introduction to the field, th
by ashton314 5y ago
Types and Programming Languages by Pierce is an amazing book. I'm still far from finishing it, but if anyone is looking for a good introduction to the field, this is it. I consider it to be kind of like the SICP of PL. :)
Edit: Ah, and the Software Foundations books are amazing. I did a little course on formal verification during 2020 and learned a ton. Now every time I work with some kind of type system, I feel frustrated that I can't express everything that I want to in my type system.
- shadowfox 5y agoAnother alternate is "Practical Foundations for Programming Languages" by Bob Harper [1]. It is a bit more broad than TAPL (imo). [1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl/