November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
166 pages
3h 14m
English
"I believe that the monadic approach to programming, in which actions are first class values, is itself interesting, beautiful and modular. In short, Haskell is the world's finest imperative programming language" | ||
| --Tackling the Awkward Squad, Simon Peyton Jones | ||
It is remarkable that we can do side-effecting I/O in a pure functional language!
We start this chapter by establishing I/O as a first-class citizen of Haskell. The bulk of this chapter is concerned with exploring three styles of I/O programming in Haskell.
We start with the most naïve style: imperative style. From there, we move on to the elegant and concise "lazy I/O", only to run into its severe limitations. The way out is the third and last style we explore: ...
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