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Re:Haskell is not category theory by eru on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:18PM (#34644285)
I mostly agree with your recommendation against Learn You A Haskell.

However I would suggest people have a look at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell

'Haskell Programming From First Principles' is a bit too fan-boyish.

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Re:Haskell is not category theory by lopatin on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:22PM (#34644355)
I thought fanboyism was one of the first principles.
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Re:Haskell is not category theory by eru on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:41PM (#34644759)
Well, you'd want enlightened fanboyism.
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Re:Haskell is not category theory by marcosdumay on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:47PM (#34646803)
The only language I've seen where developers are less fanboys of it than Haskell is C++.

Try asking one what is wrong with the language.

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Re:Haskell is not category theory by IshKebab on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:15PM (#34649193)
Haskell feels like a language that's full of great ideas but overall nobody really likes it. Maybe it just needs to simmer for 30 years until someone comes up with whatever Haskell's equivalent of C++'s Rust is.
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