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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!smk
  2. From: smk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stefan Kahrs)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
  4. Subject: Re: Definitions
  5. Message-ID: <SMK.92Aug21120255@scarp.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 21 Aug 92 11:02:55 GMT
  7. References: <9910@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <BtAIzF.7wJ@news.larc.nasa.gov>
  8. Sender: nnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk
  9. Distribution: comp
  10. Organization: University of Edinburgh, LFCS
  11. Lines: 18
  12. In-reply-to: goodrich@lynx.larc.nasa.gov's message of 20 Aug 92 16:26:02 GMT
  13.  
  14. In article <BtAIzF.7wJ@news.larc.nasa.gov> goodrich@lynx.larc.nasa.gov (Mike Goodrich) writes:
  15.  
  16. [... Michael Norris asking about FuncProg terminology ...]
  17. >   I am currently reading "Functional Programming: Practice and Theory"
  18. >   by Bruce J. MacLennan and highly recommend it.
  19.  
  20. My 0.02$:
  21. I cannot support that.  The book is not a very good source for
  22. definitions, in particular when it comes to formal definitions (the
  23. section about lambda-calculus is awful).
  24.  
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  26. Stefan Kahrs                       JANET:    smk@uk.ac.ed.dcs
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