[Haskell-beginners] PHP vs Haskell... a challenge!

[Patrick Lynch]

Good morning,
...hang in there, it's a long learning curve...I too am trying to figure out 
if you can make money with Haskell or F#...[I'm an independent software 
consultant]...
...I picked up a copy of  "Category Theory" by Steve Awodey - it supposedly 
is geared to Computer Scientists and not Mathemeticians - but I couldn't 
understand it and my math is pretty good
[...and  I've had 4 years of college math]
...btw: did you neglect to include the link for 'monad:...the best video 
I've seen is this one' - could you please provide it.
Good weekend

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Charles" <sean at objitsu.com>
To: <beginners at haskell.org>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] PHP vs Haskell... a challenge!


> Thank you everybody for your responses, I am going to print them out and 
> study them hard, particularly the use of left folds. I think I skipped 
> that in RWH book... .I need to go back and re-cover the basic again I 
> think... it's a tendency of mine to graze through stuff picking up what I 
> need and sometimes you just can't beat learning the basics.
>
> As a still beginner after about eight months of (somewhat intermittent) 
> usage I would say that in order to truly get to grips with Haskell as a 
> concept let alone a language you need to know and understand ...
>
> * currying, which helped me to truly understand the signature notation 
> used, a -> b -> c etc. I have used haXe, which is written in ocaml, and 
> the notation is the same but now makes more sense!
>
> * function composition leading to point-less notation, this is better 
> understood the currying penny has dropped
>
> * lazy versus strict evaluation and the concept of lazy I/O and why it can 
> sometimes leave you scratching your head for a while!! LMAO! :)
>
> * monads: of course, for me the best video I've seen is this one.
>
>
> As a reluctant Drupal/PHP developer and wannabe FP developer for about six 
> years now, each time I find myself coding some rubbish or other in PHP I 
> have lots of 'ahah!' moments as I think that it would be nice to be able 
> to express some idiom or form more succinctly in PHP and then I realise 
> what X Y or Z is for in Haskell... that's the upside, the downside is I 
> then have to continue the job in PHP!
>
>
> Thanks again,
> Sean.
>
>
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