<div dir="ltr">If you're looking to start, I'll recommend the learnhaskell guide: <a href="https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell">https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 December 2015 at 20:42, Sanatan Rai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sanatan@gmail.com" target="_blank">sanatan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I'd recommend writing out some code and then deciding. Functional programming is not a panacea, just the challenges are in different places. Proponents claim that the challenges are in the *right* place. Your mileage might vary.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I recommend working through 'Real World Haskell' as a good place to start.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">--Sanatan</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 11 Dec 2015 15:07, "Abhishek Kumar" <<a href="mailto:abhishekkmr18@gmail.com" target="_blank">abhishekkmr18@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">I am a beginner in haskell.I have heard a lot about haskell being great for parallel programming and concurrency but couldn't understand why?Aren't iterative algorithms like MapReduce more suitable to run parallely?Also how immutable data structures add to speed?I'm having trouble understanding very philosophy of functional programming, how do we gain by writing everything as functions and pure code(without side effects)?<div>Any links or references will be a great help.</div><div>Thanks </div><div>Abhishek Kumar</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Sumit Sahrawat,</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Junior - Mathematics and Computing</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">,</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><div>Indian Institute of Technology - BHU,</div><div>Varanasi, India</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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