On 09/25/2011 03:26 PM, mike.w.meyer@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand, 'Real World Haskell' doesn't involve all that much math, either. Nor did what I got through of 'Write yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours' (I switched to RWH because you can find solutions to the exercises in the reader comments). Or did you consider those "ridiculous" tutorials as well?
I hated Real World Haskell. IIRC, didn't get into any of the theory, and the "real world" examples didn't seem very real world, either. I should probably clarify... I don't think it is a bad think that Haskell is all about higher math. I just hated the tutorials and books that pretended like this wasn't the case and try to teach you Haskell like you are learning PHP. Personally I find lambda calculus and type theory to be quite interesting and, I suspect, the salvation of the modern programming mess. Unfortunately though they depend on a lot of material I didn't learn in college because the lame C++ OOP courses I was taking gave me the impression that there was zero connection between mathematics and real life programming. -- frigidcode.com theologia.indicium.us