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A comprehensive introduction to type systems and programming languages.

A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classifying program phrases according to the kinds of values they compute. The study of type systems—and of programming languages from a type-theoretic perspective—has important…


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Having worked with an untyped functional language the next logical step is to add types on top, and how to get a better understanding than by implementing the type system yourself.

This book takes you through all the interesting kinds and variations of type systems, and you get to implement them yourself using one of my absolute favorite languages (OCaml).

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