Reddit reviews Programming in Haskell

> lhs2tex has been using a similar scheme for ages, to support proper lining up of things when Haskell is typeset in proportional font.

This preprocessor was used in the typesetting of the book Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton. It makes for a quite aesthetic reading experience when not only are the code examples terse and to the point (Haskell!), they are also typeset with wide margins and math-like formatting.

It is generally agreed that programmers don't read enough code. Proposition: code, like all reading materials, should be beautiful to behold.

(Remark: I like the proximity of "should" and "beautiful". As Wittgenstein observed, ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.)

Programming in Haskell was recently released and worth checking out.

Haskell is a great starter language for your situation. Once you get into it, you might look at Ermine, as it's specifically developed for financial stuff. The main guy who develops it, Ed Kmett, is also a big Haskell developer. If I recall correctly, he's the head of the committee maintaining the Haskell standard library.

Chris Allen has a nice tutorial on GitHub. Learn You a Haskell is aimed at people who already know imperative programming (Python, Java, C, etc). There's another book aimed at complete newbies, called Programming in Haskell. I haven't looked at that book, but I've heard good things about it.

If you have any questions, you can always ask here, or in the #haskell channel on FreeNode. I'm pharpend in the channel, if you ever want to talk to me.

Things like list comprehensions are really cool. If you run through all of Learn You a Haskell you'll know more about Haskell than me tbh:

http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters

There's also my dissertation supervisor's book which is really good for grasping the basics:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Haskell-Professor-Graham-Hutton/dp/0521692695/ref=la_B001H6QSUC_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412108611&sr=1-1

Haskell is so powerful when you utilise it to its full potential, but I never really get the chance to play with it any more. Even so, some of the tricks I learnt from Haskell help me in a lot of the python programming I do.

There's also the fact that Haskell really gets you used to a functional style that can actually make javascript quite nice to work with.

Generally agree. However,

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4. LYAH is actually pretty bad, and I wish people stopped directing newcomers to it. There are much better resources around.

5. Afaik, Rust doesn't have higher-kinded polymorphism, which is a huge part of what makes the Haskell type system great. So I wouldn't say they share the same type system.

buy these 2 books:

• The C programming language
  
• Programming in Haskell
  
  and read them in parallel. Both are short well written books with good examples.