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Re:Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read rece... by julian25 on Friday May 16, 2014 @01:41PM (#7756713)
I've been reading Real World Haskell recently and loving it. It does a fantastic job of blowing your mind while simultaneously showing you how to apply Haskell to real-world problems.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read rece... by wink on Friday May 16, 2014 @05:04PM (#7757904)
Actually I didn't like it at all. It's been a few years, but it totally put me off learning Haskell. Doing some small steps again now, but although I'm usually all for real world applications first (instead of doing the millionth factorial function) - but it did not make much sense to me didactically.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read rece... by elwell on Friday May 16, 2014 @02:13PM (#7756900)
The authors put the book online; though they prefer you purchase a copy if you like it:

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/index.html