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Haskell Cookbook

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Haskell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Haskell is a purely functional language that has the great ability to develop large and difficult, but easily maintainable software. Haskell Cookbook provides recipes that start by illustrating the principles of functional programming in Haskell, and then gradually build up your expertise in creating industrial-strength programs to accomplish any goal. The book covers topics such as Functors, Applicatives, Monads, and Transformers. You will learn various ways to handle state in your application and explore advanced topics such as Generalized Algebraic Data Types, higher kind types, existential types, and type families. The book will discuss the association of lenses with type classes such as Functor, Foldable, and Traversable to help you manage deep data structures. With the help of the wide selection of examples in this book, you will be able to upgrade your Haskell programming skills and develop scalable software idiomatically.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Working with monad-par

The monad-par library provides a way to specify the job in both pure as well as IO contexts. The monad-par library implements a work-stealing scheduler. Using monad-par, we can define a future value, that is, a context where a value is expected to be evaluated sometime in future, and specify the point where to fork the computation. The monad-par library takes care of scheduling these computation on threads and fulfilling the context for where the computed value should be kept.

In this recipe, we compute fibonacci number using two methods, first with a naive recursive method, and second implementing the same recursion using the monad-par library.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new project called working...