The Report is also a bit outdated in spots. Along with outdated library
info, there's also a very old polymorphic recursion enhancement in GHC (and
I believe also Hugs and other defunct implementations) that should've been
added to Haskell 2010 but wasn't.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 4:42 PM Viktor Dukhovni
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.
The report would of course be a useful source of topics and material for a Haskell the language book.
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