While it may not be advanced or mathematical enough for your needs, you may wish to
read _The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through
Multimedia,_ by Paul Hudak. This is also an introductory book on functional
programming, with a special focus on Haskell, although the examples used are mainly
from multimedia.
I compared the first few chapters of both _The Craft of Functional Programming_ and
_The Haskell School of Expression,_ and personally found Hudak's book (the latter)
much more interesting. The exercises are designed to teach the reader to think in
terms of functional, as opposed to imperative or object-oriented, programming--hence
the phrase in the title "School of Expression."
--Ben
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:30:19 -0800
Doug Ransom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have read "The Craft of Functional Programming" by
> Simon Thompson and a
> few paper on the web. "The Craft" is a good book, but it
> is an introduction
> to FP.
>
>
> It seems to me it there are a lot of books on OO design I
> can pick up at the
> bookstore, but in the FP world, one must worm their way
> through all sorts of
> papers. I have seen papers on Catamorphisms, Monads,
> Programming with
> Barbed Wire, folds, etc. I think these papers are hard
> to understand if you
> don't have the acadademic/mathematical background --
> being papers and not
> textbooks these papers assume a fair bit of base
> knowledge. I know I can
> design a fold function to use in place of primitive
> recursion for most data
> structures -- I just don't know if I should. It is pretty
> easy to get
> through "The Craft of Functional Programming" without
> understanding what
> Category Theory , a Catamorphism , or a Kleisli
> Composition is. I can see
> lots of real Software Engineering oppurtunities for these
> various techniques
> if I could just put them together.
>
> Is there a good textbook on Functional Programming which
> starts from a base
> point similar to "The craft of Functional Programming"
> but more advanced in
> terms of introducing necessary topics like Category
> theory, catamorphisms,
> monads, etc? I would find such a book very useful,
> especially if it
> concentrated on lazy functional programming.
>
>
> Doug Ransom
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