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From: conrad@wucs1.wustl.edu (H. Conrad Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Functional Programming Textbooks, Implementations, etc -- Request
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Date: 2 Jul 90 14:36:32 GMT
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	I am developing a course on "functional programming" to be
taught at the beginning graduate/advanced undergraduate level.
Although the students may have been "exposed" to some Lisp
programming, their world view is primarily shaped by the imperative
(Pascal, C, & Ada) paradigm.  In this course I want to focus more on
"programming" issues than on "programming language" issues.  
This will not be an AI course or primarily a Lisp language course.
Your suggestions on the following are solicited:  

What language would you suggest as "best" for such a course?

	Miranda, Scheme, Hope, Standard ML, etc.

What are appropriate textbooks (given the language choice)?

Are inexpensive (preferably free!) language implementations and
supporting software available?

	hosts of interest:  IBM PC (DOS), 386-based UNIX, Sun 3,
			    AT&T 3B2, UNIX PCs, Sun 4, IBM RISC System/6000

My Internet E-mail address is cunningham@cs.olemiss.edu.  Thanks.
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