Who are the audience for the books on Advanced Functional Programming? Academics with a theoretical CS background or someone with just a bit of understanding of FP? Ideally, I would like a course suited for someone who has completed a basic FP course.

-----Original Message----- From: Johan Jeuring [mailto:johanj@cs.uu.nl] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 6:06 AM To: Doug Ransom Cc: haskell@haskell.org Subject: Re: Learning Haskell and FP

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Is there a good textbook on Functional Programming which starts from a base point similar to "The craft of Functional Programming" but more advanced in terms of introducing necessary topics like Category theory, catamorphisms, monads, etc? I would find such a book very useful, especially if it concentrated on lazy functional programming.

You might want to have a look at the series of three books on Advanced Functional Programming, published in LNCS, as LNCS 925, 1129, and 1608. I would probably start with 925, which introduces monads, parser & pretty-printing combinators, monadic catamorphisms, constructor classes, etc.

-- Johan Jeuring