Advanced Functional Programming edited by John Lauchbury, Erik Meijer and Tim Sheard, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1129 , Springer-Verlag, 1996.

This collection of tutorial papers from the Second International School in Advanced Functional Programming follows a similar format to the B̊astad school (Jeuring and Meijer, 1995), reviewed in this journal (Warren Burton, to appear). These schools had the aim of widening the audience for a mature functional paradigm, which has moved from the original innovations of the late 1970s and 1980s to larger-scale applications, language extensions and more advanced programming techniques. As in Jeuring and Meijer (1995), the intended audience consists of people with a first course in functional programming as well as wider computing experience. The authors use Haskell and Standard ML (SML) as vehicles, but many of their insights are non-language specific. We now review the individual contributions of the authors and conclude by making some general remarks.