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Few years ago I took a course by prof. Dan Grossman on Coursera, there was a part about SML and I so liked it (the language and the course). Now I want to read Okasaki's "Purely Functional Data Structures" book and try to reproduce the code examples in SML.

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Programming Languages by Dan Grossman, I took it too. Pretty good course, and a nice intro to static typing and FP with SML. Also nice: the DrRacket part, I wasn't familiar with lisp/scheme-like languages. Also also nice: how you can tell he doesn't really like Ruby ;)

Oh yes, and I can remember the episode when he jumped while explaining some idea in order to make this moment unforgettable. Shame on me, I forgot what idea it was but still remember his jumps :)

As far as I remember PFDS is actually written with SML code.

Somehow I have an impression that I tried something and could not repeat it in SML/NJ. I can recall it was about streams and lazy evaluations, but now I think that I just misused Lazy lib since I haven't used SML for a while. So this is getting easier, great, thanks! :)

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