Literature and Resources

Course Literature

We recommend the following course books (often referred to as TAPL):

• Benjamin C. Pierce, Types and Programming Languages, The MIT Press, 2002

Besides the course book, we will announce additional scientific articles and papers that are part of the different modules. This list will be updated during the course. See below.

Additional Articles and Papers

Module 1: Operational semantics and the lambda calculus

• G. Kahn, Natural Semantics, 1987, LNCS 247, Springer 

• Simon Peyton Jones. The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages. Prentice Hall, 1987. NOTE: You only need to read sections 2.1-2.3.

Module 2: Typed lambda calculus with extensions

To be announced at seminar 2.

Module 3: Subtyping and Polymorphism

To be announced at seminar 3.

Resources 

Below, you can find additional resources that can be helpful during the course.

OCaml

• OCaml.org is the main resource page for the OCaml language and its environments. The page contains many links and texts.

• The Objective Caml system release 4.03. The main reference resource, which includes tools and library descriptions.

• Developing Applications With Objective Caml.  Large On-line O’Reilly book. Many useful examples and explanations.

• There are several books available about OCaml. Please see this list.