Adam Turoff on 22 Mar 2005 18:31:28 -0000 |
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:41:13AM -0500, Brian McGraw wrote: > >>> waltman@pobox.com 03/22/05 10:37AM >>> > >Jim asked me at the meeting last night if I could recommend any books > >on Haskell. Haskell has recently become a hot topic in the Perl > >community since Autrijus Tang has been using it to write an > >implementation of Perl 6 he calls "Pugs"[1]. > > I've found that Hal Daume's 'Yet Another Haskell Tutorial' is probably > the most gentle introduction. It's not complete, but a good start: > > http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/htut/ Seconded. Ingy is working on a Kwid-ification of that tutorial: http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/yaht.kwid (But if you can read/print the PDF, you probably don't need that) The first two texts recommended on the Learning Haskell Page (http://www.haskell.org/learning.html) are: The Haskell School of Expression http://www.haskell.org/soe/ Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e/ The second book is exactly what it says: a book on fp that happens to use Haskell. If you're interested in applying proof-by-induction to your programs, then this is a good introduction. If you want to get started in Haskell, you probably want something more practical. The first book is probably a better bet to get started. It doesn't go as deeply into the material (and it's quite shallow in places) but it does give you a better angle on how to use Haskell in something resembling a real world problem. FWIW, I'd recommend Daume's tutorial, and work your way though a project using, say Parsec[1], to get your feet wet. Then go back and fill in the theory to figure out what you just did. ;-) -- Adam [1] The Parsec docs are even more sparse, but the intro really goes over all the features in the library at a sufficient level of detail that you can do something useful with it. - **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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