Real World Haskell

Wow, what a response we’ve had to the announcement of the book project! The web site has seen over 10,000 hits in just 20 hours. Don tells me that the announcement is the all-time highest-scoring Haskell article on Reddit. We’ve received over a hundred email messages from people who would like to act as tech reviewers. Whew! I’d [...]

Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen are pleased, and frankly, very excited to announce that we’re developing a new book for O’Reilly, on practical Haskell programming. The working title is “Real-World Haskell”. The plan is to cover the major techniques used to write serious, real-world Haskell code, so that programmers can just get to work in the language. [...]

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Welcome to the web site of “Real-World Haskell”, a book about the Haskell programming language. You might be looking for one of two destinations: Our group blog about the writing of the book, and about the practical use of Haskell to address real-world programming problems The book itself, which we’ll be making freely available online under a [...]

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Bryan O’Sullivan is an Irish hacker and writer who likes distributed systems, open source software, programming languages, and sustainable design. He was a member of the initial design team for the Jini network service architecture (subsequently open sourced as Apache River). He has made significant contributions to, and written a book about, the [...]