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Types and Programming Languages

By Benjamin C. Pierce

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780262162098, 0262162091
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13505700 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
625\625
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Writing baby interpreters using OCaml for the funny languages (include lambda calculus!) used in the theoretic chapters is a pretty cool idea and I really like it.Elementary discrete mathematics and first-order logic are required for grokking the maths materials through out the book though. If you don't have enough patience to deal with math symbols, theorems, and formal proving, then this is not the right book for you ;)IHMO, this is a highly comprehensible book for introducing lambda-calculus and type theory to readers without much background knowledge in either abstract algebra or theoretic computer science (like me ;)). I've been looking for such a book for long, in fact :)Besides, this was the very book which directly inspired the birth of Pugs (a Perl 6 interpreter/compiler in Haskell) according to Audrey, the Pugs project's leader.Highly recommended!

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