[aklug] Re: Learning Haskell... the continuing adventures

Thanks, this is a great link.

Quoting Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>:

> List has been a little quiet lately, so I thought I'd blog a little...
>
> I've been reading through an old book (1992) by Davie called "An
> Introduction to Functional Programming Systems Using Haskell" which is
> the best one I've read so far. Instead of just dumping on syntax like
> most of the tutorials I've read, it is real thorough and explains the
> concepts. I've been fascinated lately to learn the difference between
> "ad-hoc polymorphism" (overloading, which we are all used to) and
> "parametric polymorphism" (truly universal polymorphism, which is less
> commonly understood), plus a few other nifty concepts like existential
> quantification.
>
> There was also some neat history and discussion about the Von Neumann
> bottleneck and how the Von Neumann architecture came to dominate
> computing. He made an interesting reference to the possibility of an
> alternative Data Flow architecture, where (from what I understand) the
> CPU processes data based on the dependency relationships among the data.
> The book was printed in 1992, but now the idea has been implemented in a
> few different hardware arenas, though unfortunately not yet as a
> commercially-successful general architecture.
>
> Also, a year or so ago somebody mentioned to me a Web app called
> tryruby, which gives you an interactive Ruby shell without having to
> install anything. Somebody copied the idea for Haskell:
>
> http://tryhaskell.org/
>
> (Couldn't remember if I had already mentioned that link...)
>
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Received on Fri Jul 15 20:18:55 2011