lp/hs

Playing with Haskell

• my first functional language
• was familar with Ruby's blocks before starting out with Haskell
• sadly, I don't know how I got in touch (but probably my old harddisk has a few clues...)
• learnt most things with Learn You a Haskell (2011)
• got in touch again in university (3rd semester), "new things" were more formal understanding (2012)
• Monads have evaded me so far, but I hope to become more familar with them (see HelloMonads for that)

Required reading

• Learn You a Haskell
• Hoogle

Notes

• my favourite things written in Haskell are:
  • Pandoc: a versatile document converter (mostly used for markdown, but also for html email viewing)
  • XMonad: A tiling window manager, plan to use it again. Is on the list of "programs to read".

How To Learn

• write something that you wish existed
• play with the repl (Clojure excels at manipulating data, so take some data and play with it)
  • doc and ns-publics are your friends
• koans:
  • 4clojure
  • "Clojure Katas inspired by Alice in Wonderland"