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Haskell Design Patterns

By : Tikhon Jelvis, Ryan Lemmer
Book Image

Haskell Design Patterns

By: Tikhon Jelvis, Ryan Lemmer

Overview of this book

Design patterns and idioms can widen our perspective by showing us where to look, what to look at, and ultimately how to see what we are looking at. At their best, patterns are a shorthand method of communicating better ways to code (writing less, more maintainable, and more efficient code) This book starts with Haskell 98 and through the lens of patterns and idioms investigates the key advances and programming styles that together make "modern Haskell". Your journey begins with the three pillars of Haskell. Then you'll experience the problem with Lazy I/O, together with a solution. You'll also trace the hierarchy formed by Functor, Applicative, Arrow, and Monad. Next you'll explore how Fold and Map are generalized by Foldable and Traversable, which in turn is unified in a broader context by functional Lenses. You'll delve more deeply into the Type system, which will prepare you for an overview of Generic programming. In conclusion you go to the edge of Haskell by investigating the Kind system and how this relates to Dependently-typed programming
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

About the Reviewer

Samuli Thomasson is a keen Haskell programmer who is pursuing an MSc in computer science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is interested in novel functional programming paradigms, distributed systems, and advanced type-safe programming methods. He likes reading books on philosophy.

He is very excited about the book Haskell Design Patterns by Ryan Lemmer. He recommends it to all who have a basic knowledge of pure functional programming in place and would like to get familiar with some of the more advanced and compelling features Haskell has to offer.

He enjoys sauna evenings and playing board games with his friends. You can check out his public repositories on Github at https://github.com/SimSaladin.