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One of the leading textbooks on Haskell programming, this third edition is thoroughly revised throughout and includes new material on testing and domain-specific languages and a variety of new examples and case studies, including simple games.
- Emphasises software engineering principles.
- Encourages a disciplined approach to building reusable libraries of software components.
- Case studies are used throughout the book to introduce new ideas, illustrate important concepts, and demonstrate how existing techniques work together. Case studies include:
- An interactive calculator programme.
- A coding and decoding system.
- A small queue simulation package.
- Companion website contains supporting material (such as visualisation tools and a substantial number of web links) to aid further study.
- Appendices contain information on Hugs errors.
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The third edition of Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming is essential reading for beginners to functional programming and newcomers to the Haskell programming language. The emphasis is on the process of crafting programs and the text contains many examples and running case studies, as well as advice on program design, testing, problem solving and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Revisions to this new edition include new material on testing and domain-specific languages and a variety of new examples and case studies, including simple games. Existing material has been expanded and re-ordered, so that some concepts - such as simple data types and input/output - are presented at an earlier stage. The running example of Pictures is now implemented using web browser graphics as well as lists of strings.
The book uses GHCi, the interactive version of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, as its implementation of choice. It has also been revised to include material about the Haskell Platform, and the Hackage online database of Haskell libraries. In particular, readers are given detailed guidance about how to find their way around what is available in these systems.
An accompanying web site supports the book, containing all the program code, further teaching materials and other useful resources.Simon Thompson is Professor of Logic and Computation in the School of Computing at the University of Kent. His research and teaching interests include functional programming and logical aspects of computer science. Simon has written three other books: Erlang Programming (co-authored with Francesco Cesarini), Miranda: The Craft of Functional Programming and Type Theory and Functional Programming.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
$48 down the drain,
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This review is from: Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (Paperback)
My excitement to learn Haskell faded with every page turned. The Author presented the subject with such excitement comparable only to that of watching paint dry.
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Software Engineer,
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This review is from: Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (Paperback)
This book is an excellent piece for individuals in the software industry who have programmed and have excellent skills with programming languages however did not encounter the other concept which I call functional programming. It's a good start depending what is the intended goal and use. If you're currently programming some sort of mathematical logic programs or a combination of boolean algebra and proover verification systems, then that's the book for you. It serves the purpose.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mediocre Material, Awful Typography,
By "microtherion" (Sim City, CA (Somewhere in the Bay Area)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (Paperback)
This book may indeed be suitable for beginners in functional programming. Having had some previous exposure to FP, I found it very slow going, with tediously long discussion of trivial toy examples.Aggravating these flaws is the typography, which is not just ugly, but dysfunctional: The font used for the unnumbered section headers is not sufficiently distinguished from the text font, so it is impossible to skip over the examples to new material being discussed.
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