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Title: For the campus bookstore only
Review: This book is not very good as a general introduction to programming. This book wants to give you a tool which you can use to solve purely technical tasks. Further, it wants to give you a programming style before introducing any basic concepts about the programming language. Finally, SML is a bad choise if you are a complete newbie, as the SML lives in a very small world. There are 100s of books on other languages, but so far we only have 3 (three) books on SML. Because SML is a technical book for the university. However, I doubt anyone would buy this book if he or she was not a student. Besides, there are many errors in this book ... If you want an introduction to genuine programming, i suggest you read Teach Yourself C by Herbert Schildt.
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