Effective Haskell

Why This Book

Haskell can offer enormous benefits to individuals and developers who want to write high quality software, but as the saying goes, “if it were easy, everyone would do it.” The benefits of Haskell come at the cost of a steep learning curve. Haskell is hard to learn, but this book will help.

Learning Haskell can be hard in part because it’s so different from other languages you’ve probably used. This ends up being a particularly hard problem because many of the most unusual concepts that you need to learn often show up all at the same time, leading to circular dependencies in your learning plan. This book has been carefully designed, especially in the first half, to provide an on-ramp to the language that avoids the need to get into ...