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- From: stephen@groucho.csd.uu.se (Stephen Cooper)
- Subject: Good book for teaching Functional Programming & Lisp
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.104813.27380@corax.udac.uu.se>
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- Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 10:48:13 GMT
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- Hello!
-
- I've written this once, but it didn't seem to get out on the net, so here I go
- again.
-
- I'll be teaching a course in functional programming this autumn, and am looking
- for a good course book.
-
- The current course litterature is Peter Henderson's _Functional Programming,
- Application and Implementation_, but the students can hardly afford the book or
- justify the price. Considering that this course is worth only 5 credits (approx
- one fourth of a semester) and that not even half of the chapters are covered in
- the course, $125 is too expensive.
-
- I personally am born and raised on Allen's _Anatomy of Lisp_, and think that it
- is unsurpassed, but it too costs more than $100 and I can't use even half.
-
- The course covers basically only functional programming and abstract data
- structures, and uses Common Lisp. Please mail me suggestions about other books
- (or even books to stay away from) and I will post a summary, if there is an
- interest. A lisp-like syntax is preferred, but not neccessary.
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