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Functional programming is a style of programming that emphasizes the use of functions (in contrast to object-oriented programming, which emphasizes the use of objects). It has become popular in recent years because of its simplicity, conciseness, and clarity. This book teaches functional programming as a way of thinking and problem solving, using Haskell, the most popular purely functional language. Rather than using the conventional (boring) mathematical examples commonly found in other programming language textbooks, the author uses examples drawn from multimedia applications, including graphics, animation, and computer music, thus rewarding the reader with working programs for inherently more interesting applications. Aimed at both beginning and advanced programmers, this tutorial begins with a gentle introduction to functional programming and moves rapidly on to more advanced topics. Details about progamming in Haskell are presented in boxes throughout the text so they can be easily found and referred to.

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"...a rather unusual and very interesting book for the functional programming community...The author's style is wonderful, and he is good at explaining the material...This book is unique in the field of functional programming." Computing Reviews

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This book teaches functional programming using Haskell and examples drawn from multimedia applications.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (February 28, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 382 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521644089
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521644082
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.39 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.87 x 9.25 inches

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Shshshsh

Amazing read

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2020

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Amazing read makes you rethink writing programs in terms of expressions as oppose to variable mutation

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DJS

Best book for beginning functional programmers

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015

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Best book for beginning functional programmers. Excellent explanations. The code is a little out of date, but not a problem for experienced developers. Examples are fun and engaging.

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PIETER GREYLING

Captures the spirit of Haskell

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2010

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I found this the most Haskell'ish of the Haskell books I have read; succinct, concise, compact, in fact, very much in the spirit of Haskell itself. The author's writing style is clear and distilled with very little redundancy. For these reasons I keep this small volume in a special place on my large shelf of programming language books.

In agreement with other reviewers, this is not an optimal first Haskell book. The approach that worked best for me when ramping-up with Haskell was to use this text in combination with online tutorials and the O'Reilly "Real World Haskell" volume. This provided a good balance of essence, philosophy, coverage and practicality.

This book might have been a good contender for the title of "The Joy of Haskell". I enjoyed it and will keep referring back in moments when I want to recapture core functional programming concepts that apply not only to Haskell but to the functional programming genre as a whole.

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AF

Informative with interesting examples

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2013

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Informative with interesting examples. The guy who wrote chaired the committee that developed the language. I enjoy how he brings his insight into the language into the examples in the book.

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JH

Great idea, execution could use help

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2008

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Granted I am new to Haskell and to some degree functional programming. I thought this book would be really cool, pretty much an ideal book on a subject matter that I am very interested in. The text is definitely easy to follow for the most part, but WHY, WHY use a 'Times new roman' type font for the code samples? The code samples are basically in the same font as the text only in italics, making it hard to figure out what is supposed to be whitespace, which I find a pretty strange decision for a textbook on a language where layout matters...

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Inspires investigation of Haskell using great examples

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2005

C, Java, Pascal, Ada, and so on, are all imperative languages. They are "imperative" in the sense that they consist of a sequence of commands, which are executed strictly one after the other. Haskell is a functional language. A functional program is a single expression, which is executed by evaluating the expression. Anyone who has used a spreadsheet has experience of functional programming. In a spreadsheet, one specifies the value of each cell in terms of the values of other cells. The focus is on what is to be computed, not how it should be computed.
This book is a unique attempt to teach the reader the Haskell programming language by demonstrating how to write programs that perform interesting tasks such as animation, graphics, robot control, and functional music composition. The book succeeds at introducing the reader to the Haskell language and the idea of functional programming, and the book is a fascinating read with unique projects performed in the Haskell language. This is particularly true if you are interested in multimedia programming. However, intermediate features of the language are brushed over. If you are already familiar with Haskell, this book will teach you interesting ways to look at functional programming and give you some ideas for some interesting projects. If you are new to Haskell, you are going to find yourself somewhat confused when you get to the more advanced material. I therefore recommend that you read this book along with "Haskell:The Craft of Functional Programming" by Thompson. That book is not nearly as interesting as this book, but it fills in all of the intermediate details that are missing in a very detailed manner.

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If you like programming ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2006

in general, and if you don't know Haskell, OCaML, ML, or F#, then you really should buy this book and work through it.

A generation ago, Abelson and Sussman wrote "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," which brought world-shaping clarity to programming in the form of a generic, functional approach. In the time since then, "types" and "lazy evaluation" have fundamentally improved that overall approach, and Haskell is the rightful successor to Scheme as the best-of-breed of functional programming languages. That said, types and lazy evaluation are somewhat tricky to learn, and this book offers a fun and easy way to do it.

The software needed to run the samples in the book is free and works on Windows platforms (and possibly some others).

Buy it, work through every word of it, you won't regret it :)

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Paulie G

Great content; terrible printing.

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2014

The content of this book is great. I enjoy being able to perform some useful functionality in Haskell versus most other functional programming books. What I mean is that the examples are cohesive and arguable useful. This is better than a book full of recipes.

That being said, the quality of the book construction itself is terrible. I know this is a paperback; I shouldn't expect too much. The paper is fairly dark, as standard for recycled paper. However, the ink is very faded. Sometimes letters or whole words are not fully inked and you have to guess what symbol was there. The little "Detail" boxes which aim to highlight asides are especially hard to read since the background is a medium gray, the washed-out text barely contrasts, and to make matters worse: these elements seem pixelated and blurred.

Overall: I wish I just bought the eBook version and printed it out myself. It would be better than this copy which seems to have been printed out of a 30 year old Xerox machine with a toner cartridge composed of pencil shavings. I'm never buying a physical copy of a Cambrige Press book again.

The cover is cool and trippy though

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Fatima Ghaffar

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on November 19, 2016

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Just got this book last week. Really enjoying reading it! However, I won't use this book as my first book to learn fp though, in the preface Hudak says that this book is suitable for an advanced undergraduate courses.

Lloyd Moore

Useful haskell and how

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2015

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A refreshing approach to haskell and functional programming in general. The treatment of reactive programming techniques is particularly nice.

Martin Drautzburg

Zielmich basic

Reviewed in Germany on April 3, 2014

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Für Einsteiger, ist dieses Buch zu empfehlen. Aber wer das Einsteigerdasein hinster sich lassen will könnte enttäuscht werden. Ich hatte gehofft, dass mir dieses Buch den nächsten Schritt erleichtern würde, aber das Meiste war mir schon geläufig.

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Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2016

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The book is good but the accompanying code does not exist anymore

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