[Haskell-beginners] Doubts about functional programming paradigm

[Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)]

If you're looking to start, I'll recommend the learnhaskell guide:
https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

On 11 December 2015 at 20:42, Sanatan Rai <sanatan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> I recommend working through 'Real World Haskell' as a good place to start.
>
> --Sanatan
> On 11 Dec 2015 15:07, "Abhishek Kumar" <abhishekkmr18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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)?
>> Any links or references will be a great help.
>> Thanks
>> Abhishek Kumar
>>
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-- 
Sumit Sahrawat,

Junior - Mathematics and Computing,
Indian Institute of Technology - BHU,
Varanasi, India
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