ML for the working programmer Lawrence C. Paulson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

F# is designed from the outset to be a first class citizen on .NET. In the book ML for the Working Programmer, Paulson attributes it to Richard O'Keefe: A smooth applicative merge sort. ML for the Working Programmer by Paulson. ML for the working programmer : PDF eBook Download. I need to find my copy of "ML for the working programmer" and see what F# books are out there. Research paper 182, Department of AI, Edinburgh University, 1982. May 9th, 2013 reviewer Leave a comment Go to comments. I actually liked it, but it's strictly a book for those who want to learn the ML syntax - no involved examples and just pure syntax. This means that F# runs on the CLR, .. F# stems from the functional programming tradition (hence the 'F') and has strong roots in the ML family of languages, though also draws from C#, LINQ and Haskell. In smaller companies, whether or not a programmer can communicate her ideas to management may make the difference between the company's success and failure. F# meets RIA, WPF, XNA, Expression, multi-core,Silverlight, Popfly. Programmers familiar with Javascript's higher-order functions should have little difficulty with the basics of SML. The basic idea is rather well known. Paulson Publisher: Cambridge University Press.