Subject: Re: MIT? Early!?!?
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1998/02/11
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <6bri8b$48fj@fido.asd.sgi.com>

Gerald Smith  <70363.2333@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
+---------------
| Someone mentioned that Lambda Calculus was worth learning, mainly as an
| abstraction-handling tool, However I can't find any recent intro' books to
| that particular subject.
+---------------

I found the chapters on denotational semantics in Queinnec's
"Lisp in Small Pieces" to be, while not painless, at least an
approachable introduction to the subject.  (Besides, if you
liked "EoPL" & "On Lisp", you simply *must* read "LiSP"...)


-Rob

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