There are some allusions here I think. The opening line of part 2, "All Standard ML is divided into two parts." is a very strange English sentence to write. It

There are some allusions here I think. The opening line of part 2, "All Standard ML is divided into two parts." is a very strange English sentence to write. It actually sounds like the very famous opening line of Julius Caesar's "Commentary on the Gallic War" (which is prescribed as a model of Latin composition) "All Gaul is divided into three parts..." [1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_War/Book_1 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_Wa...