[Haskell-beginners] A one- or two-page diagram of how Haskell works?

[coot at coot.me]

I recently wrote a blog post which explains how expressions are evaluated: https://coot.me/posts/containers-strict-foldr.html

Best regards,
Marcin

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On Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 05:41, Michael Turner <michael.eugene.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I write C, or even C++, I have a mental model of how execution
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> will proceed.
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> When I write Prolog, but get confused, I run a kind of skeletal
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> inference algorithm in my head and the confusion usually clears up. I
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> can imagine how things are stored and what's done with them. I can see
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> /through/ the code to the machine.
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> With Haskell, I still feel blind.
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> Has anyone summarized it all in a chart where I can look at it and
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> think, "Ah, OK, GHC is taking this line and thinking of it THIS way"?
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> If someone wanted to write an interpreter for Haskell, would there be
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> a way for them to see how it would basically need to work, in one
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> chart?
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> Regards,
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