On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:42:55 -0800, Conrad Meyer
On Saturday 10 January 2009 12:03:45 pm Alan Cameron wrote:
Hi,
I stumbled across Haskell while researching 'functional programming'. I have done some initial reading and have the following questions:
1. Are there any references to real-world applications using this language?
I ask because most of the articles I have found seem to be of an extreme academic nature. I want to be sure that my time will not be wasted delving deeper.
According to the Wikipedia entry for "Software transactional memory," in the "Implementations" section (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory#Implementations), as previously mentioned by Thomas Davie as well in this thread, "STM for Perl 6 has been implemented in Pugs via the Glasgow Haskell Compiler's STM library."
2. Are there any tutorials with full code included which I can use on the HUGS system I have installed?
I have found a few "A Gentle Introduction to Haskell 98" which assumes far too much previous knowledge to be immediately useful to me.
Thanks for any replies.
Alan Cameron
You might want to use GHC instead of HUGS, as it tends to be more feature-complete. For a tutorial to start with, how about "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial"?
You may also wish to read the book _Programming in Haskell,_ by Graham Hutton (see http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html). This publication has often been praised as being relatively concise and easy to follow. There is even a relevant book review by Duncan Coutts at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book-review.pdf. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^