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I remember that the "Real World Haskell" was one of the first books sold-out at the OReilly booth at Pycon 2009, if you want more supporting (anecdotal) evidenc

I remember that the "Real World Haskell" was one of the first books sold-out at the OReilly booth at Pycon 2009, if you want more supporting (anecdotal) evidence.

Deestan 17y ago
To add to the evidence, I'm an experienced Python programmer who is currently waiting very impatiently for his Amazon shipment of "Real World Haskell" and "Purely Functional Data Structures". (Oh, and "Garfield Minus Garfield".)
- silentbicycle 17y ago
  While you're waiting for PFDS, here's Okasaki's thesis (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf). It's the seed of the book.
- gtani 17y ago
  There's sort of an emerging Big 4 (plus 1) of FP http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/ http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/ http://www.freetechbooks.com/introduction-to-objective-caml-t698.html http://www.freetechbooks.com/introduction-to-objective-caml-... don't know of any freely available content books on Clojure or Erlang;
  - grammati 17y ago
    The last of those books opens with "Objective Caml (OCaml) is a popular, expressive, high-perfomance dialect of ML...". This must be some hitherto unknown usage of the word "popular"...
    - sophacles 17y ago
      Popularity is relative -- in this case you must compare OCaml to other forms of ML, in which case the popularity is obvious :)
  - gtani 17y ago
    forgot about these http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html