Wellesley College, Spring 2008 CS251: Programming Languages Resources

Linux

• Scott Anderson's Introduction to Unix and the X Window System
• Larry Greenfield's The Linux Users' Guide [HTML] [PDF]
• Linux Documentation Project

Emacs

• Scott Anderson's Introduction to the Emacs Editor
• Emacs reference card
• U Chicago Tutorial
• Rutgers Tutorial
• GNU Emacs Manual
• Emacs documentation

CVS

• CVS Manual
• CVS Wiki

OCaml

• Comparison of SML to OCAML
• Caml Tutorials, especially
  • Jason Hickey's Introduction to the Objective Caml Programming Language [local copy of 2006 draft]
  • Michel Mauny's Functional Programming using Caml Light
• OCaml 3.08 Documentation, especially
  • the core language
  • the module system
  • OCaml language specification
  • top-level system
  • ocamllex, ocamlyacc
  • The core library
  • OCaml Standard Modules, especially:
    • Array
    • Char
    • Lazy
    • Lexing
    • List
    • Map, Map.Make
    • Parsing
    • Pervasives
    • Random
    • Set, Set.Make
    • String
    • Unix
• The Caml Language home page
• Another popular dialect of ML is Standard ML of New Jersey (SMLNJ), which is very similar to Caml except for some syntactic differences. Check out the SML home page and various SML tutorials

Scheme

• MIT Scheme home page
• MIT Scheme Reference Manual
• MIT Scheme Users Manual
• Revised⁵ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (R5RS)

Haskell

• Haskell home page
• HUGS
• Haskell mode for Emacs

General Interest

• ACM Digital Libaray
• CiteSeer
• Wikipedia
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Humor

• The Whitespace language
• INTERCAL ( INTERCAL resources)
• Haskerl
• Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
• The Great Quux Poem Collection (Guy L. Steele Jr.)
• Olin Shivers's writings (especially the infamous scsh manual acknowedgments)
• Harry Mairson's Scientific Poetry
• SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
• Paint it Black: The Red-Black Tree Song
• Lyrics to Title Of the Song