In the course-motivation discussion on October 14, we mentioned that
functional languages are used in a variety of "real-world"
projects. The written summary provides
much more information. That summary includes the following urls,
repeated here for convenience in the order they appear in the summary:
You might also be interested in the
document, Why
Undergraduates Should Learn the Principles of Programming
Languages, though it is aimed more at computer-science faculty.
