Re:GHC 7.8.1 released
by virtualwhys on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @03:47PM
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I concur, LYAH was, for me, not a terribly useful intro to Haskell.
Running through some chapters of Real World Haskell online, however, is proving to be a bit of an eye opener ;-)
Might just be that I could care less about hand drawn illustrations and the occassional somewhat humerous aside.
YMMV, many seem to love LYAH.
I accidentally upvoted you, but I disagree. LYAH is a great book to actually read through, and I enjoyed the humor. real world haskell introduces things without explaining and it's quite confusing and inconsistent.
I suggest HFH ("Haskell Fast & Hard") as the introductory tutorial to start with instead. You can pick from 2 formats:
- http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way... - static all-in-one-page format with pretty pictures
- https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic... - split version, but with the ability to open snippets in their web based IDE
...after this, Real World Haskell is probably the next step: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ (I'm still at this step).