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I'd say you should take a look at research papers for those topics: But it's true, we are lacking advanced Haskell books.

• skwosh 14y ago
  For me, there's a pretty big gap between the available educational materials and research papers. My understanding of the academic stuff is mostly intuitive. It isn't until I read a paper like Monadic Parser Combinators [1] or sigfpe's blog [2] that it really becomes concrete. I find that for a lot of higher-level ideas much of the heavy lifting isn't necessarily through application of functional ideas per se, but through more sophisticated type gymnastics. Because expressions are often written in short-hand (to expose structure), as well abbreviated and underspecified (to get the compiler to do the work), making sense of academic code can be a challenge. In another life I'd have dedicated more time to learning the fundamentals (of Programming Language Theory and Category Theory), because I find the whole field insanely facinating. Maybe I'm looking for a short-cut but there isn't one? [1] http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/237/1/monparsing.pdf http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/237/1/monparsing.pdf [2] http://blog.sigfpe.com/ http://blog.sigfpe.com/
  • tel 14y ago
    There's definitely a big gap, but I'd still suggest diving in. Reading a few of the major Functional Pearls is tough going at first, but they're generally designed to be free-standing and practical.