[Haskell-cafe] On finding the right exposition...

[David Feuer]

The Report is also a bit outdated in spots. Along with outdated library
info, there's also a very old polymorphic recursion enhancement in GHC (and
I believe also Hugs and other defunct implementations) that should've been
added to Haskell 2010 but wasn't.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 4:42 PM Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 09:14:23PM +0100, Tom Ellis wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > > I haven't yet run into a "Haskell the language" book for experienced
> > > programmers that cuts to the chase and covers Haskell concisely a la
> > > K&R, focusing much more on the language than on how to write code (only
> > > as much code as it takes to minimally illustrate a language feature).
> >
> > The Haskell Report is a good start.
>
> I agree that the report is a useful reference, but it is a
> specification, not a book from which to learn the language.  I wouldn't
> actually suggest that anyone learn C by reading the C11 specication, or
> Haskell by working their way through the report.
>
> The report would of course be a useful source of topics and material for
> a Haskell the language book.
>
> --
>     Viktor.
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