Haskell book recommendation?
bjkwak
haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:07:26 -0400
Christian Maeder wrote:
>
> bjkwak wrote:
> > I have downloaded and read some tutorials from
> > the Haskell home page, but most of them are
> > incomplete and I decided to buy a book or two.
>
> Did you try http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/htut/tutorial.ps ?
> "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial by Hal Daume III et al.
> A tutorial for Haskell that is still under construction but covers
> already much ground."
>
> This book (currently 189 pages) quite met my taste with respect to the
> selection of important basic features and (for beginners not so
> important) advanced features (that are partly still missing). It favours
> to use the compiler ghc and the interpreter ghci. (More over it is free,
> i.e. you have to bind yourself.)
Yes, I am currently reading the book and I like it a lot.
In fact, I have bound it myself. But, as you pointed out,
there are several chapters missing (only titles), and I
think eventually I will need to buy a book.
> Of course, Thompon's "craft" and the hugs interpreter are good as well.
> (In fact, it is our standard teaching book.)
>
> I would be glad if we had comparable books written in german.
I will take it as another recommendation of Thompson's book :)
> Christian
Thanks!
Byung-Jae