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Real World Haskell: Code You Can Believe In (2008)

by Bryan O'Sullivan(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0596514980 (ISBN13: 9780596514983)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

O'Reilly Media

review 1: Unfortunately, this book was a disappointment for me. There are a lot of typos in the printed version, but it's not a biggest disadvantage. It was really hard to follow the book. I think that a lot of things are just in the wrong order. There are a lot of moments when you just get a lot of code in your face without any explanations. Also, I didn't really like that there are a lot of details about the domain of examples (barcodes, image formats etc.) that doesn't really help you in learning Haskell stuff.Anyway, it is still worth reading, it has some really good chapters and contains a lot of practical information and library examples.Notice, that one should not start learning Haskell with this book, definitely. I don't agree with the description that says that "This easy-t... moreo-use, fast-moving tutorial introduces you to functional programming with Haskell."
review 2: This book singlehandedly raised a generation of Haskell programmers. We went from writing Fibonacci sequence generators to writing web applications and systems utilities. I can't speak to whether this is a good introductory book, but it took me from beginner to intermediate/advanced and no book can take you further at this point. If you're curious about Haskell and don't need technical books to be cutesy, get this book. less

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