CIS 352   —   Spring 2008

LINKS

Textbook Info

• Web page and errata for:

  Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes. Essentials of Programming Languages. Second edition. MIT Press, 2001.

• Online text and errata (courtesy the Chez Scheme folks) for

  R. Kent Dybvig, The Scheme Programming Language, Third Edition, MIT Press, 2003.

Tools

• Official course implementation: Dr. Scheme (v372)

  Language to specify when running it: Essentials of Programming Languages

Resources

• Revised⁵ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (also known as R⁵RS)

  This report is the official reference for the Scheme language and will tell you all you could possibly want to know about the language, including all the details about valid identifiers, etc.

• Scheme links a plenty via:
  • schemers.org /
  • Chez Scheme

PLs and Functional Programming

• Why study programming languages?

  Read through the text of Daniel Friedman's talk entitled The Role of the Study of Programming Languages in the Education of a Programmer, given at UNAM in April 2001.

• What's the point of functional programming?

  Read John Hughes' Why Functional Programming Matters

• Yeah, but are FPLs used for real applications?

  Read Paul Graham's article Beating the Averages, which describes the use of Lisp to implement what became Yahoo Store.