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1.3 KiB
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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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category = "review"
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "en-au", "miran lipovaca", "haskell"]
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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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