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      <title>Learning Haskell, day 1</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>I’ve missed learning new programming languages, so I’m now teaching myself Haskell for fun. I’ll post my progress as I go along.</p>
<p>Initial impressions based off what I know at this point: Haskell is very functional. The code looks different to my imperative-language eyes, though I’m intrigued by how short Haskell code often seems to be. Oh, and there are monads, though right now I have no idea what those are.</p>
<p>I’m excited to delve deeper into a pure functional language — I’ve done some limited functional programming in Python, and I have a cursory knowledge of Lisp, but I haven’t written anything real in a functional language before. (And I do plan to write a real project in Haskell. Not sure what it’ll be yet.)</p>
<p>At this point, I’ve installed the <a href="https://www.haskell.org/platform/">Haskell Platform</a> (I would have done it via Homebrew but it looks like there are issues with the recipe), and I’m planning to work through <a href="http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters">Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!</a> and possibly <a href="https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours">Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours</a>.</p><hr class="feed-extra" style="margin-top: 48pt;" /><p class="feed-extra feed-mail"><a href="mailto:ben.crowder@gmail.com?subject=Re%3A%20Learning Haskell, day 1">Reply via email</a></p>]]></description>
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