On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 04:39:15PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 09:14:23PM +0100, Tom Ellis wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
I haven't yet run into a "Haskell the language" book for experienced programmers that cuts to the chase and covers Haskell concisely a la K&R, focusing much more on the language than on how to write code (only as much code as it takes to minimally illustrate a language feature).
The Haskell Report is a good start.
I agree that the report is a useful reference, but it is a specification, not a book from which to learn the language. I wouldn't actually suggest that anyone learn C by reading the C11 specication, or Haskell by working their way through the report.
My memory of K&R may be deceiving me, but I seem to recall it is a lot closer to the Haskell Report than the C11 standard is. I would be interested in the opinion of others who have read these documents more recently.