Klappentext This edition has been extensively updated and expanded, with new chapters covering recent and more advanced features of Haskell, new examples and exercises, and freely downloadable lecture slides and example code. All concepts are explained from first principles and no programming experience is required, making it accessible to a broad range of readers. Zusammenfassung This edition has been extensively updated and expanded! with new chapters covering recent and more advanced features of Haskell! new examples and exercises! and freely downloadable lecture slides and example code. All concepts are explained from first principles and no programming experience is required! making it accessible to a broad range of readers.

Auteur

Graham Hutton is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He has taught Haskell to thousands of students and received numerous best lecturer awards. Hutton has served as an editor of the Journal of Functional Programming, Chair of the Haskell Symposium and the International Conference on Functional Programming, and Vice-Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Texte du rabat

This extensively updated and expanded version of the best-selling first edition now covers recent and more advanced features of Haskell.

Contenu

Foreword; Preface; Part I. Basic Concepts: 1. Introduction; 2. First steps; 3. Types and classes; 4. Defining functions; 5. List comprehensions; 6. Recursive functions; 7. Higher-order functions; 8. Declaring types and classes; 9. The countdown problem; Part II. Going Further: 10. Interactive programming; 11. Unbeatable tic-tac-toe; 12. Monads and more; 13. Monadic parsing; 14. Foldables and friends; 15. Lazy evaluation; 16. Reasoning about programs; 17. Calculating compilers; Appendix A. Selected solutions; Appendix B. Standard prelude; Bibliography; Index.