Hi peeps,

I have been burning my brains learning this new language and I was wondering if there is anyone here doing the same. I would love to share war stories on how the journey has been so far.

For those who are not familiar with Haskell, Haskell is a pure functional language that is lazy by default and supports pattern matching and has an excellent type system with type inference. It is a reference implementation for pure functional languages which was created by a committee of academics. Here are a list of resources for learning about Haskell:

www.haskell.org
http://learnyouahaskell.com/
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
https://www.fpcomplete.com/school

PS:
If you love abstract algebra you will definitely love Haskell as it is based on math. Let me give you a peak of some mathematical concepts that you find in Haskell: Category Theory, Functors, Monoids, Monads/Kleisli Tripples, Applicatives, Semigroups, Catamorphisms etc.

My Favorite Haskell Libraries:

JSON Parsing: Aeson
Web framework: scotty, yesod
DBAPI: mysql-simple/postgresql-simple, HaSQL
ORM: persistent, persistent-esqueleto
Html Templating: blaze-html, shakespearean, heist
etc...

You could'nt explain yourself outta papper bag.
What does "functional" mean ?
What does "lazy" mean?
What does "type system" mean?

A newbie could still be as lost as he was b4 readg ur post.

@asalimpo: This topic was not intended as an introduction to Haskell or functional programming in general. I was only looking to find other Haskell enthusiasts like myself and surely anyone in this category would already be familiar with the meaning of functional programming. However, if I could spark your interest enough to make you Google the term then I'd say I have done quite well in the former as well as the latter.

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@asalimpo: This topic was not intended as an introduction to Haskell or functional programming in general. I was only looking to find other Haskell enthusiasts like myself and surely anyone in this category would already be familiar with the meaning of functional programming. However, if I could spark your interest enough to make you Google the term then I'd say I have done quite well in the former as well as the latter.

i hav explored haskell, and other fp languages. I know wat those terms mean. i wasnt writng for my benefit but for the benefit of others . If you're too obtuse to spook d interest of novices you're not being as effectve as you shud.
If you're writng to those already into functional programmng and d like, your artcle bcomes more unnecessary cuz these folks already know these things,though maybe not d language semantics.
If you're writng to experienced programmers in other paradigms e.g oop,
givng them d gist in one place is far mor convenient thn making them google /wiki terms while/after reading ur write up (most wont and ur effort wud b less effectve).
On a marketing scale , which your artcle is,though unintentionally, you cud b losng customers. Or you cud b more effective.

I doubt this would get a response quickly. Make I try my luck.

I've been looking into Haskell for a number of years now though on and off.

I love the language and have written a few programs in it. Nothing big. In my Haskell study, I got stuck around Monad Transformers. It seems without this you can't use Haskell effectively.

I would love to talk to anyone in Nigeria who has been able to surpass this and use Haskell productively. Having to tame the use of the mtl or the transformers libraries and to write your own Monad transformers have been a challenge.

My Nairaland profile has my twitter profile link. I would love a direct message cos I don't check Nairaland as I used to when I was younger.

Many thanks.