I have to put in a plug for Learn You a Haskell for Great Good. It's quite entertaining and several of my high school students have managed to work their way through most of it.
http://www.learnyouahaskell.com Todd On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Sean Kanaley <skana...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can't speak to ML vs. Haskell starter-friendliness but I can provide a > link to a free online Haskell book: > > http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ > > It's the Haskell equivalent of "Practical Common Lisp". > > If you end up liking Haskell, the book Haskell School of Expression is very > good. It takes you through the construction of DSLs for functional reactive > programming (FRP), an imperative language to control robots (simulated on > screen with simple graphics), and one to describe music in the abstract and > then convert it to a MIDI file. It's more heavily math based, often asking > for proofs as exercises, but if that's not what you like it's not really > necessary to do them anyway. > > Note that I'm not attempting to persuade you from ML and the recommendations > already given, merely sharing what I personally know better...though I will > say that the Haskell type system to include its classes, families, > functional dependencies, transformers, GADTs, etc. is probably the best one > in existence, or at least in common use... > > > On 07/04/2013 10:36 AM, Grant Rettke wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> One of my current projects is to master as functional and statically >> typed programming language. Having discussed and debated it years ago >> (partially on list here, too) the conclusion was reached that SML >> would be a nicer place to start than Haskell or Clean. Fifteen years >> after its release, there seems to be a lot of knowledge but not a ton >> of resources exactly. There are a lot of dead links and books out of >> print (working off the SML/NJ resource list). I'm wondering of ACM's >> digital library is a good place to start. >> >> Last week I worked through _ML for the Working Programmers_ which was >> great but didn't get into the details in a way that I would have >> expected (went from 10mph to 100mph instead). Up next is _The Little >> MLer_ and Harpers _Programming in Standard ML_. >> >> This list's members have a breadth and depth far beyond most, so I'm >> wondering if I could get your help here and learn about your favorite >> learning SML resources. >> >> Best wishes, >> > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
