This is to announce the publication in the UK of the second edition of
Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming
Simon Thompson
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-34275-8
http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/craft2e
The book is available now in the UK, and will be available elsewhere in
due course: in the US by the end of April, for instance.
The web page has details of the contents and the preface as well as the Haskell
code for the programs in the book. It also gives full details of the changes
in this edition; briefly they include:
- A focus on Haskell 98 and Hugs.
- Early introduction of a pictures case study used throughout the text.
- Emphasis on the standard prelude and libraries.
- List comprehensions and the prelude functions over lists are covered
before recursion over lists.
- Polymorphism is treated rather earlier in the text than before.
- Program verification introduced first over lists rather than numbers.
- The concluding chapter contains numerous references to further resources.
- Revised treatment of typing and type classes.
- The `do' notation for I/O and general monadic programming.
- A Web page listing Hugs errors and how they have occurred.
Simon
