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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.
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