Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (International Computer Science Series) 3rd Edition

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It is more attuned to a university student rather than a software professional trying to learn Haskell."Learn You a Haskell For Great Good!", I feel is a better first book for the software professional.But both books are excellent.Finally, I wish one of the Haskell authors would give a pragmatic description of Category Theory.Category Theory is a "tough nut" to crack.

Great intro to Haskell. Had a good *early* emphasis on QuickCheck to get people in the mind of testing early

The book was ok and I read from the beginning till the end. Unfortunately I was not convinced by Haskell's advantages but it could also be, that by preferring other Functional Programming languages, I dif not give it a chance.

Really great on the delivery and the product of the book

the book received looks like used. 2 day shipping is perfect and exactly arived as promised.

Like this book, explaination of concepts are good for me

Pros :1. very well explained with many pictures and examples.2. based on Haskell 2010(third edition)Cons :Learning Haskell is like learning C. Many of the language features are really easy, but some key features are challengeable.When learning C, most of syntax/semantics except arrays and pointers can be learnt within few days, or even hours. But then, you would have hard time to master pointers, arrays and memory management, etc.Haskell is not that different. Basic arithmetic, functions, types, pattern matching, guards and even recursions, you could learn in short time. But type classes, lambdas(especially, those reductions) are a bit harder and finally, monads can be very frustrating.I am generally satisfied with the contents of the book, but his explain about lambdas and monads is a bit sparely. I think, he worried about to introduce mathematics(especially, lambda calculus and category theory). But, the functional languages are different than those imperative languages, in that its root is pure mathematics. They have a small set of simple yet powerful rules, which enables many neat tricks, and many of the tricks actually come from mathematical thinking. When you want to fully understand and to use the functional languages properly, basic theories are somewhat unavoidable. Actually, you don't need to know such as undecidability, model theory or constructive logic, etc. but the basics of (untyped-/typed-)lambda calculus(especially those of reductions, evaluation orders and some of their theorems), category theory(monad is a bit hard here, because it lies in the deep sea of category theory, but functors, for example, can be easily explained) is very helpful for thinking about higher order things and its practical use. Also, you don't need so much effort to learn only the basics of them. Without that they are explained sufficiently, the tutorial is teaching only the subset of Haskell.Don't get me wrong, this book is the most nearly complete Haskell introductory text out there with the support of Haskell 2010. I wrote the insufficient parts, because it could be the 'complete' introduction to Haskell, when the author didn't avoid the whole theory parts. And since I have read his "Type Theory & Functional Programming", I have an impression that he can present the theories easily understandable. When this part is supplemented, it can be compared to the legendary (and most complete) "C programming : A modern approach" by K.N.King in Haskell world.So, despite of the cons, I'll give 5 stars, because it is actually much better than other Haskell books.