From 62c6e88b146383554ffe50e84369c592d3dfd0a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wadler Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 17:43:16 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] fix to Preface, Acknowledgements --- src/Acknowledgements.lagda | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/Preface.lagda | 15 +++++++++------ 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/Acknowledgements.lagda diff --git a/src/Acknowledgements.lagda b/src/Acknowledgements.lagda new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dac93614 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/Acknowledgements.lagda @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +title : "Acknowledgements" +layout : page +permalink : /Acknowledgements +--- + +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 +* Sabry, Amr A. +* Nils Anders Danielsson +* Miëtek Bak +* Gergő Érdi +* David Janin +* András Kovács +* Ulf Norell +* Liam O'Connor +* N. Raghavendra +* Roman + +For comments on the text. +* [your name goes here] diff --git a/src/Preface.lagda b/src/Preface.lagda index caf34752..07e73383 100644 --- a/src/Preface.lagda +++ b/src/Preface.lagda @@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ permalink : /Preface 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 @@ -58,12 +67,6 @@ They guided me as a newbie to Agda and provided an infrastructure that 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/