Paul Rubin wrote:
> Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I've been learning a fair amount about functional programming
>> recently, mostly because compile-time C++ turns out to be a pure
>> functional programming language. Where should I go for a solid
>> grounding in lambda-calculus?
>
> For PL theory in general, try this:
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf
What a mess. That's some professor inventing his very own variation on
predicate calculus and writing a book using his own notation and terminology.
There's no sign of footnotes or references to prior work. The notation
doesn't seem to do anything not previously possible; it's just different.
Back when I was doing program verification work, we used to refer to
stuff like that as the "logic of the month club".
John Nagle
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