Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
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HN comment orderGreat book. I'd also recommend his free video course on Egghead. It's rather quirky, which is something that I very much enjoyed: https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-compo...
as a new haskell learner who started this month, I've really learned empathy from banging my head against the language the docs have a specific tone or pattern that's everywhere (and by docs I mean everything -- library readmes, examples, language intros, and stackoverflow posts) they all read like 'well, you probably haven't been introduced to monads yet. I can't answer your question directly in a short post (these posts are all like 6 paragraphs, nothing short about them), but…
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- 682
- Total comments
- 143
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-17 | Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015) | AdrianRossouw | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-05-10 | Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming | ingve | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-05-15 | Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)First breakout · Best thread | AdrianRossouw | 529 | 92 |
| 2020-03-22 | Professor Frisby's mostly adequate guide to functional programming (2018)Latest 20+ point return | dsego | 148 | 51 |