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A bit of context would be nice. Is this the go-to book to learn SML, or just a random source? SML has been on the higher ranks of my to-learn stack, because ap

by quchen 11y ago

A bit of context would be nice. Is this the go-to book to learn SML, or just a random source? SML has been on the higher ranks of my to-learn stack, because apparently it has some nice features Haskell does not, most notably I've heard great things about the module system.

isido 11y ago
I'm not sure if SML can catch up with OCaml's nice tooling (opam, merlin, Core, etc...), even if it feels a bit cleaner language to me. A Shame, but merits of a programming language are not proportional to its success. Edit. Oh, and here's a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2433860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2433860
baldfat 11y ago
I am working through this coursea course via YouTube and I also found some github repos that have the course's homework material. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang The first language is ML and than moves to Racket. Really learned a ton just doing the first weeks. It is more of a CS 202 Programming Languages course which was perfect for me since I really wanted to learn more about functional programming.
- brudgers 11y ago
  I took the second live offering of Dan Grossman's class on Coursera in fall 2013. There was another in the last year, so if the pattern holds, there would be another in the next few months or so. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
  - baldfat 11y ago
    I sure hope so I really liked his style. At first I was like oh no another syntax is 75% of material, but it ended up being described and explained clearly.
    - brudgers 11y ago
      The best part of the course for me was that it gave me an excuse to learn Emacs and a framework in which to do it. Painful no doubt, but now I have become spoiled.
biehl 11y ago
Not sure. This was the book I used: http://www.it.dtu.dk/introSML/ http://www.it.dtu.dk/introSML/ There are plenty of suggestions here http://www.smlnj.org/doc/literature.html http://www.smlnj.org/doc/literature.html
tome 11y ago
I've not read it, but if it's by Robert Harper it's probably a highly reliable source of information.

by quchen 11y ago

isido 11y ago

I'm not sure if SML can catch up with OCaml's nice tooling (opam, merlin, Core, etc...), even if it feels a bit cleaner language to me. A Shame, but merits of a programming language are not proportional to its success. Edit. Oh, and here's a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2433860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2433860

baldfat 11y ago

I am working through this coursea course via YouTube and I also found some github repos that have the course's homework material. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang The first language is ML and than moves to Racket. Really learned a ton just doing the first weeks. It is more of a CS 202 Programming Languages course which was perfect for me since I really wanted to learn more about functional programming.

brudgers 11y ago
I took the second live offering of Dan Grossman's class on Coursera in fall 2013. There was another in the last year, so if the pattern holds, there would be another in the next few months or so. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
- baldfat 11y ago
  I sure hope so I really liked his style. At first I was like oh no another syntax is 75% of material, but it ended up being described and explained clearly.
  - brudgers 11y ago
    The best part of the course for me was that it gave me an excuse to learn Emacs and a framework in which to do it. Painful no doubt, but now I have become spoiled.

biehl 11y ago

Not sure. This was the book I used: http://www.it.dtu.dk/introSML/ http://www.it.dtu.dk/introSML/ There are plenty of suggestions here http://www.smlnj.org/doc/literature.html http://www.smlnj.org/doc/literature.html

tome 11y ago

I've not read it, but if it's by Robert Harper it's probably a highly reliable source of information.