A Gentle Introduction to ML

This service is hosted by .... The original is at http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/course-notes/sml/manual.html. There are mirrors (now including Trans Atlantic). This is aimed at students with some programming skills, but new to functional languages. It consists almost entirely of exercises and diversions, these are intended to be completed at a machine with at least some supervision. It is not intended to replace teaching. It will most likely be possible to copy text from the hyper text viewer (possibly Netscape or Mosaic) and paste it directly into a window in which ML is running thus saving at least some re-typing. This document is an attempt to guide the student in learning rather than to present the syntax and theory in an ordered fashion. A considerable amount of time must be invested in learning a new language, with ML it's worth it. All of the following tutorial material has been developed for Standard ML. It has been used with New Jersey ML and Edinburgh ML but should work with an

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