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Thank you to the following.
To the inventors of Agda, for giving us a new playground.
To the authors of Software Foundations, for inspiration.
To Conor McBride and James McKinna, for cool ideas and handholding.
To Andreas Abel and Ulf Norell, ditto.
To David Darais, for showing me how much more compact it is to avoid raw terms.
For pull requests.
* Jonathan Prieto-Cubides
* Vikraman Choudhury
* Anish Tondwalkar
For answering questions on the Agda mailing list.
* Guillaume Allais <guillaume.allais@ens-lyon.org>
* Sabry, Amr A. <sabry@indiana.edu>
* Nils Anders Danielsson <nad@cse.gu.se>
* Miëtek Bak <mietek@bak.io>
* Gergő Érdi <gergo@erdi.hu>
* David Janin <david.janin@labri.fr>
* András Kovács <kovacsahun@hotmail.com>
* Ulf Norell <ulf.norell@gmail.com>
* Liam O'Connor <liamoc@cse.unsw.edu.au>
* N. Raghavendra <nyraghu27132@gmail.com>
* Roman <effectfully@gmail.com>
For comments on the text.
* [your name goes here]

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This book is an introduction to programming language theory, written
in Agda.
Please send suggestions to improve the text to [me][phil]. The text
is currrently being drafted. The first draft of the first half will be
completed before the end of March 2018. When that is done it will be
announced here, and that would be an excellent time to comment on the
first half.
## Personal remarks
Since 2013, I teach a course on Types and Semantics for Programming
Languages to fourth-year undergraduates and masters students at the
University of Edinburgh. That course had been based on the textbook
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is easy to use and produces pages that are a pleasure to view. Most
of the text was written during a sabbatical in the first half of 2018.
Please send suggestions to improve the text to [me][phil]. The text
is currrently being drafted. The first draft of the first half will be
completed before the end of March 2018. When that is done it will be
announced here, and that would be an excellent time to comment on the
first half.
-- Philip Wadler, Rio de Janeiro, January--June 2018
[sf]: https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/