Re:Haskell is not category theory
by pema99 on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:34PM
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Feels worth mentioning that Learn You A Haskell is about 1/3 the length of the book you mentioned.
I agree that it won't teach you all you need to know to be really proficient with the language, and also wish it didn't omit monad transformers in particular. I still like that it's an easy read, and that I could hand it to someone with pretty much zero knowledge of FP. I used sections of it as a first resource, and then learned the rest by reading documentation, which is how I usually deal with new languages.
I haven't read the book you suggested, so can't comment on the content, but seeing that the first chapter is on lambda calculus makes me a bit skeptical. Perhaps you can tell me, is the book similarly beginner friendly?
I agree that it won't teach you all you need to know to be really proficient with the language, and also wish it didn't omit monad transformers in particular. I still like that it's an easy read, and that I could hand it to someone with pretty much zero knowledge of FP. I used sections of it as a first resource, and then learned the rest by reading documentation, which is how I usually deal with new languages.
I haven't read the book you suggested, so can't comment on the content, but seeing that the first chapter is on lambda calculus makes me a bit skeptical. Perhaps you can tell me, is the book similarly beginner friendly?