Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Functional Pearls

ithika:

On 05/05/07, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

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I've created a wiki page collecting the 'functional pearl' papers that have appeared in JFP and ICFP and other places over the last 20 odd years.

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers/Functional_pearls

Lots of lovely functional programs there.

That's wonderful. I only recently found out about them and was blown away by the beauty of Richard Bird's sudoku solver. (The slides, anyway.) Let's go straight to the intravenous injection of awesome programs...

D.

Great. It was an idea that came up in #haskell this morning: 19:43:28 <geezusfreeek> any good articles/tutorials/whatever about how to best go about actually designing a program in haskell (or functional languages in general)? 19:48:09 <geezusfreeek> i have a mostly OO background, and i want to avoid tainting my functional prog ramming experience with the OO design patterns and habits i have 19:48:31 <geezusfreeek> and it's already clear to me that most of my habits are going to lead me straight to confusion 19:54:48 <dons> geezusfreeek: possibly some of the functional pearl, and design-ish, papers from ICFP would be a good read 19:55:10 <dons> basically replacing going to oxford or chalmers, and having Richard Bird teach you how to think like a lambda :-) So, what better way to steep yourself in the design cult(ure) of the lambda, than to go through the pearls. :-) -- Don