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Can somebody elaborate what is this? Edit: Let me rephrase my question: Is this for someone who would like to start learning Haskell?

drstrangevibes 13y ago
updates to the haskell platform (notably haskell compiler, haskell interactive interpreter, haskell libraries) release notes (http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html) should give more detail on whats included.
adamtulinius 13y ago
> Is this for someone who would like to start learning Haskell? This is were said somebody goes to download Haskell after having been persuaded to give it a chance.
androidb 13y ago
See their wiki on what is Haskell and the advantages of functional programming: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction
vimes656 13y ago
It's also meant to be used as a reference for distro package maintainers. If your code builds properly with the current platform, you can be confident it will build properly in most systems.
maximilian 13y ago
In short: Yes. It is the "batteries included" version of Haskell that comes with basically everything you need to write production ready software. There are obviously a lot of useful packages on `cabal`, but they are mostly useful so that you don't have to recreate the wheel (or want to do web-dev).
gtani 13y ago
Yes, and there's some excellent freely available books to go with it http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20130316105209238/BestFreeHaskellBooks.html http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20130316105209238/BestFree... http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1af3iw/9_best_free_haskell_books/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1af3iw/9_best_free_... ___________ this is a good intro slide deck: http://fvisser.nl/post/2013/april/23/slide-cfams-talk.html http://fvisser.nl/post/2013/april/23/slide-cfams-talk.html

drstrangevibes 13y ago

updates to the haskell platform (notably haskell compiler, haskell interactive interpreter, haskell libraries) release notes (http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html) should give more detail on whats included.

adamtulinius 13y ago

> Is this for someone who would like to start learning Haskell? This is were said somebody goes to download Haskell after having been persuaded to give it a chance.

androidb 13y ago

See their wiki on what is Haskell and the advantages of functional programming: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction

vimes656 13y ago

It's also meant to be used as a reference for distro package maintainers. If your code builds properly with the current platform, you can be confident it will build properly in most systems.

maximilian 13y ago

In short: Yes. It is the "batteries included" version of Haskell that comes with basically everything you need to write production ready software. There are obviously a lot of useful packages on `cabal`, but they are mostly useful so that you don't have to recreate the wheel (or want to do web-dev).

gtani 13y ago

Yes, and there's some excellent freely available books to go with it http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20130316105209238/BestFreeHaskellBooks.html http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20130316105209238/BestFree... http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1af3iw/9_best_free_haskell_books/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1af3iw/9_best_free_... ___________ this is a good intro slide deck: http://fvisser.nl/post/2013/april/23/slide-cfams-talk.html http://fvisser.nl/post/2013/april/23/slide-cfams-talk.html