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This is a great article, particularly because it's easy to follow. It shows that Haskell is much more accessible to beginners than some people make it out to be
by tikhonj 13y ago
This is a great article, particularly because it's easy to follow. It shows that Haskell is much more accessible to beginners than some people make it out to be!
If you've been considering trying Haskell, you should go for it. Perhaps even start with a REST API project like this. You can learn the basics from "Learn You a Haskell"[1], which is a great book available free online, and you can install Haskell with the Haskell Platform[2], which has gotten a new release fairly recently.
[1]: http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouahaskell.com/
[2]: http://haskell.org/platform http://haskell.org/platform
- joshrotenberg 13y agoThanks, I'm glad you found it easy to follow.
- ufo 13y agoHe is not a real Haskell beginner though :P
- chongli 13y agoHaskell is pretty easy to learn for beginners, but this means beginners to programming. People who are highly experienced programmers are not beginners and may have more difficulty learning Haskell because it violates so many of their assumptions. I've been teaching my non-programmer friend Haskell and he's learning very quickly and enjoying it a great deal. He doesn't get frustrated because he has no assumptions about how things "should work".