Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing "Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'"

On 12/13/06, Justin Bailey wrote:

On 12/12/06, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

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Agreed. Something along the lines of "The Art of Functional Programming".

+1 . I would love to read something that is the equivalent of 'design patterns', but for functional languages. I thought Osasaki's book "Purely Functional Data Structures" would have that, but it was little too focused on proving properties of algorithms. As someone in industry, that wasn't so important to me. I want to learn how to "think" functionally.

Check out this paper by Jeremy Gibbons, "Design Patterns as Higher-Order Datatype-Generic Programs": http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/index.html#... If you want to learn how to "think" functionally, forget you ever heard the words "design pattern". There shouldn't be patterns in your programs. If there are, that means that either your language isn't providing you with enough abstractions or that you aren't using the abstractions that are available (or possibly both). Cheers, Kirsten -- Kirsten Chevalier* chevalier@alum.wellesley.edu *Often in error, never in doubt "Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual." -- Bill Gates