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

[John Beattie]

Seconded. This worked for me also as a good starting point.  The report is quite
readable.

On 2021-09-18 12:15 +0300, Bryan Richter wrote:
> I started learning Haskell by reading the Report, and I warmly recommend that
> strategy. In particular, I just skipped over the terminology that didn't make
> sense to me yet, and I didn't try too hard to keep the big picture in my head
> (suggestion to future versions: put all the BNF diagrams in the same place!)
> 
> Even with a rudimentary read-through, I was already advanced beyond the likes
> of LYAH and ready to start running simple programs in ghci. Even today I
> sometimes know things about syntax that surprise my colleagues.
> 
> I didn't need to know monads yet. The build tool challenges were a bigger
> stumbling block at that point.
> 
> But best of all, I was familiar with the reference material, so I could easily
> go back and reread things when necessary!
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2021, 23.40 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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