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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)

Sorting a list

In this recipe, we will write a pseudo-quick sort using recursion. We call it pseudo-quick sort because it looks deceptively such as quick sort, but does not have a performance anywhere near it.

Getting ready

Use Stack to create a new project, pseudo-qsort, with the simple template and build it, after changing directory to the project folder:

      > stack new pseudo-qsort simple
> stack build

How to do it...

  1. Open src/Main.hs and write the qsort implementation. The qsort involves the following:
    • Choosing an element of the list to be sorted
    • Using...