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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)

Implementing Eratosthenes Sieve

In this recipe, we will look at a prime number calculator called Eratosthenes Sieve. It is an old algorithm for finding prime numbers. The prime numbers are found by crossing out composite numbers. The sieve works as follows:

  1. Start with 2, a known prime. Strike out all the numbers that are multiples of 2.
  2. Start with the next unmarked number, which will be the next prime (since it is not divided by any prime before). Repeat the procedure of marking all the multiples.
  3. Repeat the procedure.

For more information, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes.

Getting ready

Create a new project, eratosthenes, using the simple Stack template. Change into the project directory and build...