The Little Mler

with a foreword by Robin Milnerand drawings by Duane Bibby Over the past few years,
ML has emerged as one of the most important members of the family of programming languages. Many
professors in the United States and other countries use ML to teach courses on the principles of
programming and on programming languages. In addition, ML has emerged as a natural language for
software engineering courses because it provides the most sophisticated and expressive module system
currently available.Felleisen and Friedman are well known for gently introducing readers to
difficult ideas. The Little MLer is an introduction to thinking about programming and the ML
programming language. The authors introduce those new to programming, as well as those experienced
in other programming languages, to the principles of types, computation, and program construction.
Most important, they help the reader to think recursively with types about programs.

Matthias Felleisen is Trustee Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, recipient of the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and co-author (with Daniel Friedman) of The Little Schemer and three other "Little" books published by the MIT Press.

Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and is the author of many books published by the MIT Press, including The Little Schemer (fourth edition, 1995), The Seasoned Schemer (1995), A Little Java, A Few Patterns (1997), each of these coauthored with Matthias Felleisen, and The Reasoned Schemer (2005), coauthored with William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov.