Books on FP, lambda calculus, closures - Re: teaching programming

However, all of those should be accurate and as complete as possible. And alas many articles are neither. THis is not just a computer-related article/book issue. My favourite is nothing to do with computer oe electronics. It's that old photographic chestnut that the focal length of your camera lens affects the perspective of the image... Maybe not. But I do understand when an article is talking nonsense. Look, I am not expecting every article to contain schematics and source code. But when I read that 'Uni is a programming language that...' I know that the author doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. Sure. But what annoys me is the equivelent of claiming to be making Chipendale chairs while actually you're making crates. As I said, I wasn;t poining my finger at you, or anyone else. I've not read any of your articles, so I can't possibly comment on them. But Iv'e read a lot of rubbish for other authors... I also feel it's possible to simplify things too much and thus make them incomprehensible. I am interested in telephones and related stuff [1]. I read several introductory books and found I couldn't understand them. I actually felt that the operation of a Storwger exchange was beyond me. And then, by chance, I got a copy of 'Telephony'. Volume 2 is about automatic echanfes, and it contains full schematics. I spent a couple of weeks reading it through, following the operation of overy relay. And it all made sense. Yes, it was heavy going, but it was worth it. The introductory books were useless. [1] No, I am not interestiend in gettign free calls, or in listening to other people's conversations. I am interesed in the electrical and electronic side. To me 'Telephone hacking' doesn't mean what it means in the gutter press (to listen to somebody else's calls(, it mans making parts for old rotary dial phones from scratch. -tony