[Haskell-cafe] Re: Top 20 ``things'' to know in Haskell

[John Hughes]

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>Message: 9
>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:31:30 -0500
>From: "Jacques Carette" <carette at mcmaster.ca>
>Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Top 20 ``things'' to know in Haskell
>To: <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
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>The recent post of Graham Klyne (below) reminds me that I have meant to ask:
>is there a ``top 20'' things a serious programmer should know when writing
>code in Haskell?  Of course there is a lot of programming language theory
>that would be great to know, but I mean really down-to-earth things like the
>2 items below (module Maybe, the 'maybe' function).
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>The Haskell libraries are quite large, and it is unrealistic to try to get
>familiar with all of them right away.  But getting a ``small'' list would be
>very useful - I think of this as step 2 after one learns to get comfortable
>with a language.  I had done this (for Maple) for training new hires at
>Maplesoft, and I definitely noticed that they became more idiomatic
>programmers faster this way.
>
>Jacques
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>PS: of course, this could already exist on haskell.org and/or the Wiki, but
>not in an 'obvious' enough place as I missed it...
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Beginners might find this useful:

    http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/d1pt/d1pta/ListDoc/

It's guide to finding the right list function which leads you to it by 
asking you
what you are trying to achieve.

john

>-----Original Message-----
>From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org
>[mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Graham Klyne
>Sent: February 7, 2005 10:09 AM
>To: Yuri D'Elia; haskell-cafe at haskell.org
>Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] [newbye] 'Just a'
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>You might also be interested in the library function 'maybe':
>   http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/standard-prelude.html#$vmaybe
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>or maybe (sic) Maybe.fromMaybe in:
>   http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/maybe.html
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>#g
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