Ask HN: Best Book to Learn Haskell And/or Functional Programming Paradigms?

Posted by haskell-user on Sunday February 19, 2017 @12:14AM
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What modern (as of Feb 2017) book do you recommend for learning Haskell and/or Functional Programming Paradigms?

I was interested in 'Real World Haskell' (http://book.realworldhaskell.org/) but it's from 2008 and I hear some breaking changes have been added to the language since.

Also if it matters, my preference are for technical books similar to 'The Practice of Programming'.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Book to Learn Haskell And/or Functional Prog... by localfugue on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:24AM (#13679058)

Take a look at this link from Chris Allen (aka bitemyapp): https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

The current best resource for beginning with Haskell seems to be haskell-book (listed on the Github link above): http://haskellbook.com/. Chris Allen also authored this book with Julie Moronuki.

If you're looking to diversify your interests to broader CS/FP topics, you may find this link helpful: http://reinh.com/notes/posts/2014-07-25-recommended-reading-...

Other references from around here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807066

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Re:Ask HN: Best Book to Learn Haskell And/or Functional Prog... by haskell-user on Sunday February 19, 2017 @12:39PM (#13680799)

That's amazing, Thank you!

Another book I'm considering is 'Purely Functional Data Structures' by Chris Okasaki

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