Difference between revisions of "Learning Haskell"

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This portal points to places where you can go if you want to learn Haskell.

The Introduction to Haskell on the Haskell website tells you what Haskell gives you: substantially increased programmer productivity, shorter, clearer, and more maintainable code, fewer errors, higher reliability, a smaller semantic gap between the programmer and the language, shorter lead times. There is an old but still relevant paper about Why Functional Programming Matters by John Hughes. More recently, Sebastian Sylvan wrote an article about Why Haskell Matters.

There is also a table comparing Haskell to other functional languages. Many questions about functional programming are answered by the comp.lang.functional FAQ.

Implementations

Here is an overview about Haskell implementations:

	Messages	Size	Tools	Remarks
Hugs	+/-	++	-	Fast compilation; used a lot for learning Haskell and rapid code development. See also WinHugs.
GHC	+	-	++	Many language extensions; generated code is very fast
NHC	?	+	++	Profiling, debugging, tracing
Yhc	?	+	?	Compiles to bytecodes. Runtime easily portable. Still under heavy development.
Helium	++	++	-	No type classes (yet!) and thus incompatible with most material on this site. Made for teaching/learning.

Material

Below there are links to certain introductory material. If you want to dig deeper, see Books and tutorials.

Textbooks

Online tutorials

Meta-tutorial
Haskell Wikibook A long tutorial on Haskell that includes "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial", "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours" and "All about monads".
Yet Another Haskell Tutorial (best tutorial available online, also here)
Two dozen short lessons
A Gentle Introduction to Haskell - classic text, but not so gentle really :D
Haskell-Tutorial
Online Haskell Course (German)
Haskell for C Programmers

Advanced tutorials

Hitchhikers Guide to Haskell
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours
Tackling the Awkward Squad (on I/O, interfacing to C, concurrency and exceptions)

Debugging/profiling/optimization

Monads

Type classes

Generic programming

Scrap your boilerplate

Popular libraries

Reference

Course material

Programming in Haskell, Chalmers
CS 11 Caltech
Functional programming: course notes (English, Dutch, Spanish), slides in Dutch
CS1011: Tutorials, lab exercises and solutions

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 * [http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html Programming in Haskell]
-=== Tutorials ===
+=== Online tutorials ===
+* [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Meta-tutorial Meta-tutorial]
-* [http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/230.301/lectureNotes/tourofprelude.html A Tour of the Haskell Prelude (i.e. predefined functions)]
+* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell Haskell Wikibook] A long tutorial on Haskell that includes "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial", "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours" and "All about monads".
 * [http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/docs/daume02yaht.pdf Yet Another Haskell Tutorial] (best tutorial available online, also [http://pub.hal3.name/daume02yaht.pdf here])
 * [http://www.cs.ou.edu/~rlpage/fpclassCurrent/textbook/haskell.shtml Two dozen short lessons]
-* [http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/ A Gentle Introduction to Haskell (classic text)]
+* [http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/ A Gentle Introduction to Haskell] - classic text, but not so gentle really :D
 * [ftp://ftp.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at/navratil/HaskellTutorial.pdf Haskell-Tutorial]
 * [http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/teaching/Hskurs_toc.html Online Haskell Course] (German)
 * [http://www.haskell.org/~pairwise/intro/intro.html Haskell for C Programmers]
-* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell Haskell Wikibook] A long tutorial on Haskell that includes "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial" and "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours".
 === Advanced tutorials ===
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 * [http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/%7Ejdtang/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overview.html Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours]
 * [http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/marktoberdorf/ Tackling the Awkward Squad] (on I/O, interfacing to C, concurrency and exceptions)
+=== Debugging/profiling/optimization ===
+=== Monads ===
+* [http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)]
+* [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/wadler95monads.html Monads for Functional Programming]
+* [http://www.haskell.org/all_about_monads/html/ All about monads]
+* [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/IO_inside IO inside: down the Rabbit Hole]
+=== Type classes ===
+* [http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/class/class.ps.gz The paper that at first time introduced type classes and their implementation using dictionaries]
+* [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers/Type_systems#Type_classes More papers on the type classes]
+=== Generic programming ===
+* [http://www.cs.vu.nl/boilerplate/#papers Scrap your boilerplate]
+=== Popular libraries ===
+* ByteStrings?
+* [http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/daan/download/parsec/parsec.html Parsec, a fast combinator parser]
+* [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Modern_array_libraries Modern array libraries]
+* Gtk2Hs?
 === Reference ===
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 * [http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellNewbie Haskell Newbie]
 * [http://cs.anu.edu.au/Student/comp1100/haskell/tourofsyntax.html Tour of the Haskell Syntax]
+* [http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/230.301/lectureNotes/tourofprelude.html A Tour of the Haskell Prelude (i.e. predefined functions)]
 * [http://zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputglobal/index.html Haskell Reference]
 * [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reference_card Haskell Reference Card]