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

Tutorials

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)

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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 Below there are links to certain introductory material.  If you want to dig deeper, see [[Books and tutorials]].
+=== Textbooks ===
+* [http://www.haskell.org/soe The Haskell School of Expression]
+* [http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e/ Haskell: the Craft of Functional Programming]
+* [http://www.prenhall.com/allbooks/ptr_0134843460.html Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell]
+* [http://books.cambridge.org/0521277248.htm An Introduction to Functional Programming Systems Using Haskell]
+* [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lapalme/Algorithms-functional.html Algorithms: A functional programming approach]
+* [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/ The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming]
 === Tutorials ===
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 * [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]
+=== Advanced tutorials ===
 * [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Haskell Hitchhikers Guide to Haskell]
 * [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)
-=== Textbooks ===
-* [http://www.haskell.org/soe The Haskell School of Expression]
-* [http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e/ Haskell: the Craft of Functional Programming]
-* [http://www.prenhall.com/allbooks/ptr_0134843460.html Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell]
-* [http://books.cambridge.org/0521277248.htm An Introduction to Functional Programming Systems Using Haskell]
-* [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lapalme/Algorithms-functional.html Algorithms: A functional programming approach]
-* [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/ The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming]
 === Reference ===