The average rating for A Swag of stories based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.
Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-01 00:00:00 Mario Vela Creating Web Pages for Dummies |
Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-11 00:00:00 Mickey Glover I wish I learned Standard ML later. I also wish there was a newer edition of this book. It's not a bad book to learn Standard ML from. You could understand most of it without having to run smlnj, and for the most part, it was a pleasant read. However: * It's an old book and it's typeset pretty horribly. I guess it's OK for 1997, but it's annoying to read it it 22 years later. * It tries a bit too hard to bridge in C/C++ developers, instead of just jumping in the functional waters head first. * Occasionally there are some really lengthy explanations for some really obvious code that just get in the way. * It ends up with a definition of the syntax of ML that's just a bit awkward to read. You may infer the language from it if you think hardly enough, but examples would have been better. Apart from all that, it's a pretty decent book. One thing that I particularly enjoyed was the exercises - occasionally there was something cool to learn in them, like 2-3 trees. |
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