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title = "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Miran Lipovača"
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date = 2018-11-23
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updated = 2021-02-12
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "miran lipovaca", "haskell", "reviews", "it", "stars:2",
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"published:2011"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6593810-learn-you-a-haskell-for-great-good):
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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a fun, illustrated guide to learning
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Haskell, a functional programming language that's growing in popularity. Learn
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You a Haskell for Great Good! introduces programmers familiar with imperative
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languages (such as C++, Java, or Python) to the unique aspects of functional
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programming. Packed with jokes, pop culture references, and the author's own
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hilarious artwork, Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! eases the learning
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curve of this complex language, and is a perfect starting point for any
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programmer looking to expand his or her horizons. The well-known web tutorial
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on which this book is based is widely regarded as the best way for beginners
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to learn Haskell, and receives over 30,000 unique visitors monthly.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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I have mixed feelings about this book.
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It starts really really well, explaining how the language works. And then it
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falls on the trap of "functional programming" that, instead of focusing on what
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you can do with the language, it goes lengths talking about monads, monoids,
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functors and nondeterminism that you keep wondering why it is taking so long
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explaining function programming instead of focusing on what you can do and when
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you should use one.
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There is even a bad description of "don't do this because it will look horrible
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when you convert to this other form". Wondering if something will look horrible
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if you write the same thing in a different form should never be a deterrent for
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something.
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Also, there is the language. Surely, Haskell adds a missing point in Lisp,
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which are the types, but them it goes off the rails trying to remove
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parenthesis and the result is a mass of weird symbols, all representing the
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same thing. And you have, as I mentioned before, different forms to write the
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same code, which makes the language highly irregular, one trait that really
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pisses me off in programming languages.
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