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Re:Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS? by yellowflash on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:04AM (#30486859)
It would be Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell. That one little chapter on parser combinators was totally worth it.

If I can include this functional pearl "A play on regular expression", Not a book though.

These two showed how composition and simple abstraction could make the solution super beautiful.

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Re:Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS? by Banana699 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @12:18PM (#30490338)
>If I can include this functional pearl "A play on regular expression"

For anyone intereted :

https://xfido.com/pdf/regexp-play.pdf

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