[Haskell-beginners] A first try

[Panagiotis Koutsourakis]

Hi David,

Thanks very much for your reply. I'll take a look at IterateIO and I
didn't know about hpaste.org, so i'll check it out as well.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:43 PM, David Place <d at vidplace.com> wrote:
> Hi, Panagiotis.
>
> The wc program is a good choice for a learning program, but it reveals a long-standing weakness in Haskell: Lazy-IO.  I think you will find that your program will get an error if you try to run wc on many files.  You will open too many files at once.
>
> There is a solution called IterateeIO.  It's extremely elegant and very good Haskell, but quite challenging to understand.  So far, I have not found a good tutorial.
>
> Luck for you the best example program is an implementation of wc!
>
> I posted it in hpaste.org.  (A Haskell-specific version of pasteBin.)
>
>> http://hpaste.org/48254
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
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>
> On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Panagiotis Koutsourakis wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been spending some time recently learning Haskell. I am not a
>> newbie in programming, and I've had some experience with lisp in the
>> past, but I have not really studied functional programming. I am
>> mostly seeking feedback regarding style, and glaring mistakes that I
>> may make in some toy examples, but I am not sure if this is the proper
>> place to ask.
>>
>> In case it is though, here is an attempt (not yet complete) at the
>> word count program:
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/JZw22QGA
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> --
>> Panagiotis Koutsourakis
>>
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