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Real World Haskell 1st Edition

by Bryan O'Sullivan (Author), John Goerzen (Author), Don Stewart (Author)

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Bryan O'Sullivan is an Irish hacker and writer who likes distributed systems, open source software, and programming languages. He was a member of the initial design team for the Jini network service architecture (subsequently open sourced as Apache River). He has made significant contributions to, and written a book about, the popular Mercurial revision control system. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and sons. Whenever he can, he runs off to climb rocks.

John Goerzen is an American hacker and author. He has written a number of real-world Haskell libraries and applications, including the HDBC database interface, the ConfigFile configuration file interface, a podcast downloader, and various other libraries relating to networks, parsing, logging, and POSIX code. John has been a developer for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system project for over 10 years and maintains numerous Haskell libraries and code for Debian. He also served as President of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., the legal parent organization of Debian. John lives in rural Kansas with his wife and son, where he enjoys photography and geocaching.

Don Stewart is an Australian hacker based in Portland, Oregon. Don has been involved in a diverse range of Haskell projects, including practical libraries, such as Data.ByteString and Data.Binary, as well as applying the Haskell philosophy to real-world applications including compilers, linkers, text editors, network servers, and systems software. His recent work has focused on optimizing Haskell for high-performance scenarios, using techniques from term rewriting.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oreilly & Associates Inc; 1st edition (December 5, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 670 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596514980
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596514983
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.28 x 1.5 x 9.09 inches

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Max Cantor

Excellent, paradigm shifting book

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2009

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Before purchasing RWH, I had already read the whole book on its website in beta form. Even though I have a decent amount of haskell experience, I was very very pleased with this book. So much so, that I bought the hard copy to have as a reference and because part of me felt like I owed to the authors. I should also note that the authors are often in #haskell and each of them have been extremely helpful to me in the past.

The authors do a great job of explaining the value of taking on the challenge of coding in a pure, functional language. As clock speeds stagnate and the number of cores available to programmers increases, this will only become truer with time. As the authors demonstrate, Haskell is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this new paradigm. The other paradigm shift is that this is the first major book (AFAIK) to address Haskell from a practical as opposed to academic perspective. It does so with shining colors.

I can't recommend RWH strongly enough for anyone considering Haskell. As a last note, even if you can't conceive of a single time that you will ever need to use Haskell, learn it anyway. It will blow your mind. Check the canonical powerset of a list function below if you still need convincing:

powerset :: [a] ->
powerset = filterM (const [True, False])

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It is not the easiest language to learn. i recommend learning some other programming languages. Maybe python basics. Then maybe something higher level like C or C++ if you insist, or maybe Java. If your already an experienced programmer you may have the same experience as me. I found Haskell to be really interesting and a unique fun approach to solving issues. But keep in mind this is a functional language and object oriented programming is absent in this language. As a book i feel like its a good run though of how to program in Haskell. It provides interesting examples in it as well as being able to make a QR code scanner. If you read this book don't just skim though it. You will need to probably practise the examples multiple times and experiment a little. But if your paying attention and thinking about what they are saying in the book you should get the hang of it.

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zbrown

Good for a first draft and especially for a Functional Programming book

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2009

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RWH is a solid book that gives the read a good idea of how Haskell works and why its unique. The book has its fault, largely because its a first draft that tries to cover a LOT of material. Don Stewart however has actively tried to aid in any deficiencies found by fixing errors on the web-version of this book so I'm not bothered by errors or things left out in the book.

The biggest complaint people have is that it tends to introduce concepts without really ever mentioning why something is being done. On one hand I agree with that assessment, however I also think that the book was marketed somewhat improperly. I would not call this book a good book for a beginner or your average intermediate programmer. At the very least I would say this book is better suited for experienced programmers or intermediate programmers with a passion for learning about languages.

That said, of the Functional Programming books I own, this is one of the best and most practical. It does not require a doctorate in Denotational Semantics to understand and it does not burn the first half of the book on typed/untyped lambda calculi (not that these things aren't important).

In short, if you want to get down to business working with a functional language, you have some experience with programming and are comfortable with a few errors then this book is for you.

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A life-changer

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2008

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The book is a must-read for not only people who would specifically like to learn Haskell, but for any programmer who is open to new ways of thinking about computing.
It serves at least those purposes:
- Makes one an overall better programmer by teaching to think about problems in a functional mindset, thus teaching modularity and abstraction (because functional programs tend to be modular and abstract 'by construction')
- By introducing some of Haskell's extremely powerful libraries, such as STM and QuickCheck, motivates to search for equally unbelievably beautiful design decisions in casual programming
- Teaches one to program useful, reliable, fast, concurrent, tested, and-so-on real-world applications in Haskell

I beleive that the book will play a seminal role in popularization of functional programming, and, consequently, in increasing the number of good programmers and good code in the world :)

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brad

a grand slam

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2008

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I've been following the development of this book online and read portions of it prior to its delivery. This is THE haskell book as far as I am concerned, it will be to the haskell community what Programming Perl was to the perl community...a book that is complete, friendly, and definitive. The depth and breadth of the material covered is incredible. Oddly enough I stumbled upon pre-release chapters online while searching for a solutions to incorporating proper error reporting with monadic code - the chapter outlining the use of the Error monad was put to immediate use in code I was writing. This discovery was quickly followed by my use of the code in the database connectivity chapter. My guess is that this book will ignite the already growing haskell community. 10/10!

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Excellent book to get you into Haskell

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2016

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After a lifetime of programming in declarative languages like C, C++ and Java, I find it difficult to switch into the functional programming mindset. I suspect this is more to do with my age than anything else. I’m particularly interested in how to build systems that effectively make use of modern multi-core computers, assuming that we’ll soon have computers with hundreds of cores. In spite of what some experts say, I have grave doubts about our ability to reliably build such systems in the likes of Java; yes, there will some people who will be able to do it, but how will the common or garden developer do it?

Enter functional programming. Erlang has the ability to succeed with multi-cores, though I have my doubts about its efficiency; it’s great for network-heavy applications, but is it quite so great for compute-intensive apps? I’m not convinced yet that functional programming (Erlang excepted) has the ability *right now* to build hugely scalable multi-core apps - but I think the potential is there, and any developer putting the effort into becoming proficient at functional programming may be hugely rewarded in the future.

Given this hypothesis, how to go about it? Haskell has a reputation of being an extremely pure functional language. It also has a reputation of being very hard to learn. This is where “Real World Haskell” comes in. If you study this book right to the end, you’ll have made the mindset switch. Be warned though, it has 650 pages and is heavy going. Not because it’s badly written; on the contrary, it’s written very well. It’s because there’s a huge amount of technical stuff to put over. Recursion, folds, partial functions, lambda functions, typeclasses, and monads anyone? (Write programs using recursion in Java etc, and get used to stack overflows; not the best way to write highly stable apps).

Back in the 1990s I went through another mindset switch - from procedural thinking to object thinking. I’m finding this one harder. After studying a couple of hundred pages, and having studied Erlang previously, I began to experience the mindset switch. Unfortunately it was fragile, one minute I was thinking functionally and the next back to declarative. The real world intervened though, and I had to stop the study; so I slid back to declarative thinking. Real soon now I’m going to take another run at it. Of all the Haskell books, this is the one I’ll use. I’ve found others either too simple or too academic; for me, this book is just right.

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Justin Hanekom

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on July 24, 2014

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I love this computer language and I love this book. Well done!

punter

Comprehensive, clear, convenient

Reviewed in France on July 9, 2015

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Out of several Haskell textbooks on my bookshelf (pretty much all you can find on Amazon & internet bar Bird's books), this is the one I refer to most often and quickly find an answer.

You may need other Haskell books too but you can't go wrong with this one.

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GB

Not an easy read, but definitely brilliant and worth studying

Reviewed in Germany on May 16, 2014

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Having a background in science, with this book I felt the way I used to feel with college textbooks back in my student days - you're happy if you can digest a page or two in a day. But once you understood the stuff, the knowledge becomes a part of your internal thinking and reasoning.

Chapter 10 with its ad-hoc monadic parser is ``a newbie killer''. The discussions of parseByte on the website with the text of the book helps. Reading on the state monad helps to understand the chapter too.

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Riccardo

Ben scritto

Reviewed in Italy on November 23, 2012

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Che dire, devo ancora finire di leggerlo ma è una bella guida per imparare ad usare Haskell, ben scritto ed interssante.

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