The
first installment of Mark C. Chu-Carroll's Haskell tutorial series went up last week.
It begins this way:
Before diving in and starting to explain Haskell, I thought it would be good to take a moment and answer the most important question before we start:
Why should you want to learn Haskell?
It's always surprised me how many people don't ask questions like that.
Farther down:
So what makes Haskell so wonderful? Or, to ask the question in a slightly better way: what is so great about the pure functional programming model as exemplified by Haskell?
The answer is simple: glue.
Languages like Haskell have absolutely amazing support for modular development.
An interesting and though-provoking article, even for someone that's been using Haskell for more than 2 years now. (Yikes, I had no idea it was that long)
You can also see
all his posts on Haskell, which include a couple more installments.
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Comments
Sun, 05.10.2008 20:40
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Sun, 05.10.2008 18:34
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Sun, 05.10.2008 14:23
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Sat, 04.10.2008 23:43
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Sat, 04.10.2008 17:26
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Sat, 04.10.2008 08:37
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