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Richard S. Bird, Philip Wadler.
Introduction to Functional Programming.
Prentice Hall. 1988

Introduction to Functional Programming provides a thorough grounding in the principles and techniques of programming with functions.

The book emphasises and develops important mathematical techniques for reasoning about programs and for deriving programs from their specifications.

The book 1s self-contained and assumes no prior knowledge of programming. Each chapter contains numerous exercises and Chapter 4 consists of extended case studies from a variety of areas.