Julio Biason
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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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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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title = "The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects - Emily Prokop" |
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date = 2018-11-24 |
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One of the books from the "Trivia Champion" Humble Bundle. And yes, it belongs |
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to a "Trivia Champion" bundle. |
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The whole book consists on small stories about random objects: The smiley face, |
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the revolver, the hydrant, the wipper, all consist in a small story behind it |
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or some anecdote, like a campus on war due a water gun. |
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The stories are small and funny. |
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The only problem I had (and, again, personal problem) is that it is too |
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American-centric. I mean, the whole war on a water gun mentions an American |
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university; Dr Pepper is mostly unknown in Brazil; 90% of the people mentioned |
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are American -- and, by the way, the little anecdote about the water gun has |
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absolutely no relation to the creation of the product. |
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