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I have spent the last year or so having false starts on learning Haskell; I would reach an impasse as soon as I start asking "what will I use this for." Once I
by zackham 16y ago
I have spent the last year or so having false starts on learning Haskell; I would reach an impasse as soon as I start asking "what will I use this for." Once I decided to learn Haskell as a companion language for learning more math and computer science, I was actually able to stay on track.
If you have any other books along the lines of this one to recommend I am all ears. The time I have spent on these sorts of academic pursuits have paid off incredibly well in the real world of programming for a living day-to-day.
- grav1tas 16y agoAgreed 100%. Haskell shines the brightest in Academic settings.
- hyle 16y agoTalking about books I would recommend Introduction to Functional Programming 1st edition (Prentice Hall 1988 -- the second, paradoxically, is "spoiled" by Haskell), by Bird and Wadler.
- zackham 16y agoCould you expand on what you mean by it being spoiled by Haskell?