Reading a Book in Progress
Just posted some thoughts about reading the Real World Haskell. It’s a really cool concept and something I have wanted to read for a long time. I learned Haskell in R.D Tennant’s class at Queen’s back in 2004 and really liked it, but never fully understood it. Now that I know more about functional programming and programming in general its a much easier read. I think Queen’s should put this class in third year and make it more applied rather than theoretical. Students would get more out of it.
It’s amazing how all of these older languages and paradigms are making such a comeback. Must be crazy for all of the people who have been around a lot longer than me. To see the ebb and flow, the rise and fall of these languages. Let’s hope the good ones stay good and are around for a long time. My top three are still.
1. Ruby
2. C#
3. Javascript
However, I think that Haskell is closely rounding third.
Anyway, take a look at the book and the review and tell me what you think.
Kent
