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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Miran Lipovača</h1> |
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2018-11-23 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/miran-lipovaca/">#miran lipovaca</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/haskell/">#haskell</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6593810-learn-you-a-haskell-for-great-good">GoodReads Summary</a>: |
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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.</p> |
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★★☆☆☆ |
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<p>I have mixed feelings about this book.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>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. </p> |
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