This book is the best introduction to Haskell I know. The chapter on lazy evaluation was so compelling I am thoroughly convinced I have been thinking about evaluation the wrong way all my life (minus space complexity issues ;-). As much as I prefer short books (such as Hudak et al's "A Gentle Introduction to Haskell" -- which is also good, but *not* gentle once you get far enough into it) the main critique I had to the 1st edition is that it only scratched the surface and did not go far enough. It seems this has been thoroughly addressed in this edition. Thanks for making this a reality! :-) Dimitri On 01/09/16 9:00 AM, beginners-request@haskell.org wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:59:09 +0000 From: Graham Hutton To: "beginners@haskell.org" Subject: [Haskell-beginners] New edition of "Programming in Haskell" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Dear all,

I'm delighted to announce that the new edition of "Programming in Haskell" is now available! Further details are provided below, and are also available from: http://tinyurl.com/hnfjdgc.

Best wishes,

Graham

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Programming in Haskell - 2nd Edition

Graham Hutton, University of Nottingham

Cambridge University Press, 1st September 2016

320 pages, 120 exercises, ISBN 9781316626221

http://tinyurl.com/hnfjdgc

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DESCRIPTION:

Haskell is a purely functional language that allows programmers to rapidly develop clear, concise, and correct software. The language has grown in popularity in recent years, both in teaching and in industry. This book is based on the author's experience of teaching Haskell for more than twenty years. All concepts are explained from first principles and no programming experience is required, making this book accessible to a broad spectrum of readers. While Part I focuses on basic concepts, Part II introduces the reader to more advanced topics.

This new edition has been extensively updated and expanded to include recent and more advanced features of Haskell, new examples and exercises, selected solutions, and freely downloadable lecture slides and example code. The presentation is clean and simple, while also being fully compliant with the latest version of the language, including recent changes concerning applicative, monadic, foldable, and traversable types.

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CONTENTS:

Foreword Preface Part I. Basic Concepts: 1. Introduction 2. First steps 3. Types and classes 4. Defining functions 5. List comprehensions 6. Recursive functions 7. Higher-order functions 8. Declaring types and classes 9. The countdown problem Part II. Going Further: 10. Interactive programming 11. Unbeatable tic-tac-toe 12. Monads and more 13. Monadic parsing 14. Foldables and friends 15. Lazy evaluation 16. Reasoning about programs 17. Calculating compilers Appendix A. Selected solutions Appendix B. Standard prelude Bibliography Index

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AUTHOR:

Graham Hutton is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He has taught Haskell to thousands of students and received numerous best lecturer awards. Hutton has served as an editor of the Journal of Functional Programming, Chair of the Haskell Symposium and the International Conference on Functional Programming, and Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, and he is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

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