good advanced fp (haskell) book

Fritz K Ruehr fruehr@willamette.edu
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:09:12 -0700 (PDT)


Chris Okasaki's book "Purely Functional Data Structures" is not on
Haskell per se, but it addresses data structures (and efficiency
issues) from a higher level than the typical introductory FP book.

All the data structures and code are available in Haskell in
an appendix (and on-line). Amazon has 15 sample pages (hmm, must be
a big seller).

You should also look at the book "Algebra of Programming" by Richard
Bird and Ooge de Moor: you will find much to satisfy your mathematical
tastes, as well as motivations which include efficiency. Again the
language is not exactly Haskell, but if past history is any guide,
then Haskell will probably look more like the language of this book
after a few years anyway :) .

  --  Fritz Ruehr

PS: I found "A of P" on Barnes and Noble's site more easily than on Amazon.