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So before learning Haskell, you wished you had already known over 325 pages of what? That seems like a motivation to not try to learn it at all.
by jack9 11y ago
So before learning Haskell, you wished you had already known over 325 pages of what? That seems like a motivation to not try to learn it at all.
- BadassFractal 11y agoIn Haskell you can get most work done without the advanced concepts, but you can always choose to dig into the meaty stuff and get even more leverage from the type system. Easy to start, hard to master, keeps things very interesting for a a very long time. By the time you think you've mastered most of what it has to offer, the next version of GHC comes out with new goodies, now you can learn even more superpowers. Btw, the title says "when", not "before", big difference.
- zenocon 11y agoI find articles like this pretty useful and always bookmark them. They are useful for me when I've already invested the time to learn the rudimentary basics of a language; after that, each of these tips usually provides an 'a-ha' moment and saves me from learning something the hard way...but I wouldn't start reading this before getting yourself to at least an elementary understanding of the material.
- coolsunglasses 11y agoThis isn't a beginner resource, Stephen himself has said that. It's a great post-learning-the-basics supplemental.
- Gabriel439 11y agoThe title should really be "Stuff that I wish I had quick reference material for when learning Haskell". You might need a few of those sections for specific application areas (and that's how they are organized), but you can safely ignore the rest.